Category: The Mark of the Horse Lord

Posts at www.rosemarysutclif.com about The Mark of the Horse Lord, historical novel by Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92)

Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth and the North-East of England

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The Eagle of the Ninth (now a 2010 film) is ‘perhaps’ Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘finest book of historical fiction’ claims Alan Myers, and she is ‘one of the most distinguished children’s writers of our times’. The Eagle of the Ninth ‘exemplifies the psychological dilemmas that Rosemary Sutcliff brought to her novels’.

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Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult 1972

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Rosemary Sutcliff won the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1972. She also won the (UK) Library Association Carnegie Award for The Lantern Bearers in 1959; was highly commended by the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974, and nominated in 1968; the  Phoenix Children’s Book Award for The Mark of the Horse Lord in 1985, and for The Shining Company in 2010; and the The Carnegie Medal for the Lantern Bearers in 1959.

  • More about awards won by Rosemary Sutcliff here on this blog.