For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
Thank you to Yvonne Morris of CILIP (The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) for picking up so very promptly on the relaunch of this website to celebrate the work of the late children’s author Rosemary Sutcliff. She has noted in CILIP Information and Advice blog that “Rosemary won CILIP’s prestigious Carnegie Medal in 1959 for The Lantern Bearers and was runner-up in 1972 for Tristan and Iseult.”. And also that “A prolific writer, Rosemary, who died in 1992, has recently posthumously received the Phoenix Award for The Shining Company.”