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Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal〔 and the American Printz Award〔 for ''Postcards from No Man's Land'' (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.〔〔
==Life and work==
Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine.〔(Biography )〕 After two years in the Royal Navy as part of his National Service, Chambers trained as a teacher and taught for three years at Westcliff High School in Southend on Sea before joining an Anglican monastery in Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1960. His young-adult novel ''Now I Know'' (1987) is based partly on his experiences as a monk.
His first plays, including ''Johnny Salter'' (1966), ''The Car'' and ''The Chicken Run'' (1968), were published while he was a teacher at Archway School in Stroud.
Chambers left the monastery in 1967 and a year later became a freelance writer. His works include the "Dance sequence" of six novels (1978 to 2005): ''Breaktime'', ''Dance on My Grave'', ''Now I Know'', ''The Toll Bridge'', ''Postcards from No Man's Land'' and ''This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn''. He and his wife, Nancy, founded Thimble Press and the magazine ''Signal'' to promote literature for children and young adults. They were awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children's books in 1982. From 2003 to 2006 he was President of the School Library Association.
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