Peter Dickinson died on 16 December 2015, his 88th birthday.Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. He was also chair of the Society of Authors. The Kin (1998) made the Whitbread Award shortlist.ĭickinson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.

Dickinson won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association for The Seventh Raven (1981) and again in 2008 for Eva (1988). Eva (1988) was a runner-up for both the Carnegie and the Horn Book Award.

Dickinson was the British nominee in 1988 for the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award, and one of five finalists for the award in 2000. In 1982, Dickinson was named in the International Board of Books for Young People Honor List for Tulku, and The Iron Lion was selected one of New York Times Notable Books. He won the Carnegie Medal again the following year for City of Gold. Eva by Peter Dickinson, Used (153 results) You searched for: Author: peter dickinson, Title: eva. He won the 1977 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Blue Hawk, and both the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal for Tulku (1979). It was adapted in 1975 as a BBC TV series, The Changes.ĭickinson won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award for Skin Deep in 1968 and A Pride of Heroes in 1969.

The Weathermonger became the 'Changes' trilogy comprises alongside the books Heartsease and The Devil's Children (1968 to 1970). One of his few non-fiction books was the collection Chance, Luck and Destiny (1975) won the second annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for children's non-fiction in 1977. He continued to write poetry for entertainment and occasionally on commission.ĭickinson published almost fifty books including crime fiction for adults, speculative and supernatural fiction for older children, and simpler children's books. He was admired by critics and readers alike and had the distinction of being the first author to twice. On completing sequels to both debut novels, Dickinson left Punch to be a full-time author the next year. Peter Dickinson, who has died aged 88, was a prolific novelist for adults and children. For seventeen years, he worked as assistant editor, resident poet and reviewer for Punch magazine.ĭickinson's first two books, The Weathermonger and Skin Deep, were published in 1968. Eva Summary This novel of speculative fiction tells the story of a young womans struggle for a sense of self, and for freedom, following the grafting of her identity into the body and mind of a chimpanzee. After completing his National Service (1946–48), he studied at King's College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951. He attended Eton College in 1941 and remained until 1946. Peter Dickinson was born in 1927 in Zambia and moved to England in 1936.