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.
Nominations for Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature, and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children’s book 2016 announced | Rosemary Sutcliff awarded Carnegie in 1959 for The Lantern Bearers