Mollie Hunter (1922–2012)
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Mollie Hunter was born in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland on June 30, 1922. At the age of 14, she got a job at a flower shop in Edinburgh and educated herself by studying in the National Library. Most of her children's books were based on Scottish history and legends. Her works include A Sound visa mer of Chariots, The Kelpie's Pearls, The Thirteenth Member, and The Lothian Run. She won the Carnegie Medal in 1975 for The Stronghold. She died on July 31, 2012 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Mollie Hunter
A Sound of Chariots- 1 exemplar
Cat, Herself 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 10, June 1978 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 11, July 1978 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- McIlwraith, Maureen Mollie Hunter McVeigh
- Födelsedag
- 1922-06-30
- Avled
- 2012-07-31
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Dödsort
- Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Utbildning
- Preston Lodge School, East Lothian, Scotland
- Yrken
- novelist
author
teacher(creative writing)
children's book author
fantasy writer
Playwright - Organisationer
- Society of Authors (past chairman, Society of Authors in Scotland)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1975)
Child Study Association of America's Children's Books of the Year citations, for The Ferlie, 1968, The Walking Stones, 1970, The Thirteenth Member, 1971, A Sound of Chariots and The Haunted Mountain, both 1972, The Stronghold, 1974, A Stranger Came Ashore, 1975, Talent Is Not Enough, 1976, A Furl of Fairy Wind, 1977, and Cat, Herself, 1987; Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival honor book citation, 1970, for The Lothian Run; New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citations, for The Haunted Mountain and A Sound of Chariots, both 1972, and A Stranger Came Ashore, 1975; Children's Book Award from the Child Study Association of America, 1973, for A Sound of Chariots; Scottish Arts Council Award, 1973, for The Haunted Mountain; Silver Pencil Award (Holland ∙ Holland) - Kort biografi
- Mollie Hunter was born and raised near Edinburgh, Scotland, and married Thomas McIwraith in 1940. She made her debut as a writer with the novel Patrick Kentigern Keenan, published in 1963 in the UK and released in the USA as The Smartest Man in Ireland. She went on lecture tours of the USA in 1975 and New Zealand in 1976. She served as a writer-in-residence at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and also taught creative writing at the Aberlour Summer School. In addition to her more than 25 novels and plays for children and adults, she also produced nonfiction works about writing, and wrote numerous articles and essays for newspapers and magazines. She's considered one of the most popular and influential 20th-century Scottish fiction writers.
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Best Young Adult (1)
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- Medlemmar
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- Popularitet
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- ISBN
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"Jag är den smartaste mannen på Irland", brukar han säga.
Patrick hade en snäll fru och en liten son, och de hade kunnat leva lyckliga och utan bekymmer om inte Patrick en dag hade bestämt sig för att överlista småfolket som bodde i trakten.
Det hela började med att Patrick behövde ett par nya skor, och alla visste ju att pysslingarna var de bästa skomakarna på Irland. Men pysslingarna ville ha betalt i guld för sitt arbete och Patrick var både fattig och ointresserad av arbete. Då gällde det för Patrick att bevisa att han verkligen var smart, ja, till och med smartare än småfolket. Och för detta krävdes också en god portion mod."… (mer)