![]() ![]() She has written radio and television scripts and was presenter for a BBC Radio 4 programme on children's literature. Penelope Lively contributes regularly to a number of national daily newspapers and literary and educational journals. She has also written two volumes of autobiography and many short stories. More recent novels include The Photograph (2003) and Making it Up (2005). Two of her novels written for adults have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and she won it in 1987 with Moon Tiger. Her many books written for children include Astercote (1970), The Whispering Knights (1971), The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973), which won the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time (1976), which won the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She came to England in 1945, went to school in Sussex, and read Modern History at St Ann's College, Oxford. Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933 and brought up there. ![]()
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