Talk:Robert Swindells

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Robert E. "Bob" Swindells was born 20 March 1939 in Bradford, England, and the first of 5 siblings. He is a children’s and young adult author.
Robert Swindells worked for a local newspaper after leaving school aged 15 he also worked at the Royal Air Force and had lots of different job before training to be a teacher. His first novel When Darkness Comes (which won the Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land 1985) in 1973 when he was in training to be a teacher.
His first novel When Darkness Comes (which won the Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land in 1985. Swindells also won the award for Room 13 in 1990, Nightmare Stairs (Short novel, 1998) and Blitzed (Younger readers, 2003). His young adult novel Stone Cold in1993, which dealt with homelessness, won the Carnegie Medal in 1994.
Robert Swindells is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren.
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message: I have deleted the Manchester Book Award as not notable here because our article/list shows about 30 annual "longlist" titles (6 shortlist, 1 winner).
* 2006 Manchester Book Award longlist, Branded [ref]Manchester Book Award[/ref]
The Hampshire Book Award may be notable here for we show 6 annual shortlist titles. We have no reference for shortlist data. Our award article gives dead External link to one old press release; perhaps annual PR have been our sources there. 
The Carnegie Medal highly commended runner up (abandoned after 2002) was about annual and Swindell's 1984 "HC" was unique. --as explained in the Note. --P64 (talk) 20:20, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
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 in the footer provides links to some catalog data.
--One is WorldCat which shows Stone Cold (1993) translations in five languages but no U.S. edition (surprise).
search "Swindell, Robert" at Kirkus Reviews hits only three reviews (surprise) but one covers his first book When Darkness Comes (1973) --in its 1975 U.S. edition.
--P64 (talk) 20:37, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
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