Postcards From No Man's Land

Aidan Chambers is an author of novels and plays. Born in the north of England, he worked as a high school teacher for eleven years, during which time he was also a monk for seven years, before he left both teaching and the monastery to establish himself as a full-time author. He has written for many newspapers and journals as well as television and radio, and is well known as a writer and lecturer on the nature and value of reading and literature. In 1969 he and his American wife Nancy founded Thimble Press, which publishes books about children´s literature and the magazine ´SIGNAL: Approaches to Children´s Books´, internationally recognized as one of the most important in its field. His books are published in many languages. Among other prizes, his novel Postcards From No Man´s Land was honored with the Carnegie Medal, Britain´s most prestigious recognition for children´s and youth literature, and the Italian Andersen Award. He is also the recipient of The Children´s Literature Association Award for excellence in literary criticism, and the British Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children´s books. He is currently writing the sixth and last of his youth novels which make a family Sequence, a body of work he describes on the BOOKS page of his Web site.