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Book Awards won by Rosemary Sutcliff

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I am trying to make accurate my list of all book awards Rosemary Sutcliff was given or nominated for. This is my summary so far: can readers help me expand and improve it?
  • 1959: The Carnegie Medal, The Lantern Bearers
  • 1968: The Hans Christian Andersen Award, nominated
  • 1971: Zilveren Griffel – The Silver Pencil, in Holland
  • 1972: The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Tristan and Iseult
  • 1974: The Hans Christian Andersen Award, highly commended
  • 1978: The Other Award, Song for a Dark Queen (A children’s book award focusing on anti-sexist, anti-racist titles in the UK).
  • 1985: The Phoenix Award, The Mark of the Horse Lord
  • 2010: The Phoenix Award, The Shining Company

CILIP Information and Advice Blog notes this Rosemary Sutcliff blog!

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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. Read More »

UK writer Rosemary Sutcliff book The Shining Company awarded major US 2010 Phoenix Award

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The Eagle of the Ninth author Rosemary Sutcliff, children’s writer of historical fiction,  has won the ‘highly prestigious’ Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) 2010 Phoenix Award in the USA – see here – for her historical novel The Shining Company. The prize is for a book which did not win awards when it first came out but whose reputation  has grown over 20 years.Read More »

Rosemary Sutcliff wins ChLA 2010 Phoenix Award in USA for high literary merit

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Rosemary Sutcliff in Top 20 living British authors | The Times in 1980s

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Trawling the internet, I am reminded that in 1981 British publishers announced their choices for the top 20 (then) living British writers.  Rosemary Sutcliff was among them. At the time, Frank Delaney, chairman of the selectors, said:

In a storehouse so rich, there are far more than 20 good , even great, writers. What we have tried to do is select authors whose record of publication has provided them with critical acclaim and public recognition.

She ‘beat’ such distinguished people who were not in the top 20 as Robert Graves (the poet and novelist),  J.B. Priestley (who had a 60-year literary career), Alan Sillitoe,  Kingsley Amis,  Muriel Spark, Dick Francis and  Daphne du Maurier. Lord Snowdon took a picture which for copyright reasons I am sure I should not post, although I have it somewhere.