Anne Fine

Anne Fine Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for both adults and children.  Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize as well as Britain’s most coveted award for children’s literature, the Carnegie Medal. She won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies, which also won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award. Among her many other prizes are the Smarties Prize for Bill’s New Frock, a second Whitbread Award for The Tulip Touch, a silver Nestle prize for Ivan the Terrible, and many other regional and foreign awards. 

In 1990 and again in 1993 she was voted Publishing News’ Children’s Author of the Year. In 1998, she was the UK nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Adaptations of Bill’s New Frock and Goggle-Eyes have been screened by the BBC and Twentieth Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire.

Having written over fifty books for children of all ages, Anne Fine became Children’s Laureate in 2001 and during her two years of office set up the Home Library (free downloadable modern bookplates from www.myhomelibrary.org) and published three classic anthologies of poetry for different age groups, called A Shame to Miss 1, 2 & 3.

Anne Fine has also published seven highly acclaimed novels for adults, including In Cold Domain, All Bones and Lies and Raking the Ashes. The Killjoy won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and both Taking the Devil’s Advice and Telling Liddy have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Fly in the Ointment is her most recent novel.

Anne Fine’s work has been translated into forty five languages. In 2003 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. Anne has two grown up daughters, and lives in County Durham.

Bibliography

Books for Adults

  • The Killjoy  (1986)
  • Taking the Devil's Advice (1990)

  • In Cold Domain (1994)
  • Telling Liddy (1998)
  • All Bones and Lies (2001)
  • Raking the Ashes (2005)
  • Fly in the Ointment (2008)
Picture Books
  • Poor Monty
  • Ruggles
Poetry Anthologies
  • A Shame to Miss 1    (Poetry for 5-8 year olds)
  • A Shame to Miss 2    (Poetry for 7-11 year olds )
  • A Shame to Miss 3    (Poetry for 12 - adult)
Books for Children
  • The Road of Bones
  • The Angel of Nitshill Road
  • Round Behind the Icehouse
  • Bill's New Frock
  • The Tulip Touch
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • The Book of the Banshee
  • Loudmouth Louis 
  • Very Different (short stories)
  • Jennifer's Diary  
  • The Stone Menagerie
  • Roll Over Roly
  • The Granny Project
  • The Worst Child I Ever Had
  • Madame Doubtfire
  • The Diary of a Killer Cat
  • Flour Babies
  • The Return of the Killer Cat
  • Goggle Eyes
  • The Killer Cat Strikes Back
  • On the Summerhouse Steps
  • The Killer Cat's Birthday Bash
  • Up on Cloud Nine
  • Design a Pram 
  • Step by Wicked Step
  • Scaredy Cat 
  • Frozen Billy
  • How to Cross the Road without Turning into a Pizza
  • The More the Merrier
  • The Same Old Story Every Year
  • A Pack of Liars
  • The Haunting of Pip Parker
  • Crummy Mummy and Me
  • Only a Show  
  • Charm School
  • Countdown
  • Bad Dreams
  • Care of Henry
  • Press Play
  • Telling Tales (An Interview with Anne Fine)
  • Nag Club
  • How to Write Really Badly
  • "It Moved!"
  • Saving Miss Mirabelle
  • Stranger Danger?
  • The Chicken Gave it to Me
  • The Jamie and Angus Stories
  • Genie, Genie, Genie
  • Jamie and Angus Together
  • Anneli the Art Hater
  • Jamie and Angus For Ever
  • Notso Hotso

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