Edward Blishen (1920–1996)
Autor(a) de Science Fiction Stories
About the Author
Edward Blishen was born on April 29, 1920. He was an English author and broadcaster. He may be known best for the first of two children's novels based on Greek mythology, written with Leon Garfield, and illustrated by Charles Keeping. For The God Beneath the Sea, Blishen and Garfield won the 1970 mostrar mais Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book in England. Blishen was born in Hertfordshire, England. He died on December 13, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1920-04-12
- Data de falecimento
- 1996-12-13
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- Whetstone, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Whetstone, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Educação
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet, England, UK
- Ocupação
- teacher
author
broadcaster - Pequena biografia
- Won a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet. His lifelong love of books was encouraged there by Spencer Vaughan-Thomas, an outstanding English teacher. Left school at 17 and worked on local newspaper in Muswell Hill.
A conscientious objector in WWII, worked on a farm.
In 1949 attended London emergency teacher training college. Was a teacher until 1959.
Broadcaster: a weekly BBC programme for young African writers; then BBC Magazine of the Arts Overseas.
part-time teaching at York University between 1963 and 1965 in the education department. Blishen devised a course built around different literary descriptions of teaching found in texts from David Copperfield to The Rainbow.
A constant and acute reviewer and editor of children's literature,
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- Membros
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- Popularidade
- #19,245
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 14
- ISBNs
- 144
- Idiomas
- 6
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