| Robert
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 07 Oct 1929
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Date of death - 1993 |
| Place of birth
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Robert Westall was born on October 7, 1929, at 7 Vicarage Street, North Shields, England. He received a bachelor's degree in fine art from Durham University in 1953, after which time he served briefly (until 1955) as a Lance Corporal in the Royal Signals, a branch of the British Army.
In 1957 he received a Doctor of Fine Arts from the Slade School, University of London, and married Jean Underhill one year later.
After serving as an art teacher and guidance counselor at Sir John Deane's College in Northwich, Cheshire, for twenty-five years (19601985), Westall dedicated himself to the occupation of antiques dealer (albeit only briefly) and writer.
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Besides writing numerous books for young adults, he has also contributed articles of art criticism to the London Guardian and the Chester Chronicle.
Westall's first book, The MachineGunners, a realistic novel set in England during World War II, was awarded the British Library Association's prestigious Carnegie Medal in 1976.
His books have been translated into ten languages, dramatised for television and he won the Carnegie again in 1982 for The Scarecrows, the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat, and the Guardian Award in 1991 for The Kingdom by the Sea.
Westall died April 15, 1993 in Cheshire, England, of respiratory failure brought on by pnenmonia. |
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