Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is an English writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).

Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  She is also a Vice-President of the Friends of the British Library.

References

Other websites
 Audio slideshow interview  about Family Album on The Interview Online

Category:Booker Prize winners
Category:1933 births
Category:Living people
Category:English novelists
Category:English children's writers
Category:Writers from Cairo