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Joan Lingard (born April 23, 1962, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish novelist. == Career == Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed ''Kevin and Sadie'' series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since. Her first novel ''Liam's Daughter'' was an adult-oriented novel published in 1963. Her first children's novel was ''The Twelfth Day of July'' (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970. Lingard received the prestigious West German award the "Buxtehuder Bulle" in 1986 for ''Across the Barricades''. ''Tug of War'' has also received great success: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1989, The Federation of Children's Book Group Award 1989, runner up in the Lancashire Children's Book Club of the year 1990 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award. In 1998, her book ''Tom and the Tree House'' won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award. Her most recent novel, ''What to Do About Holly'' was released in August 2009. Lingard was awarded an MBE in 1998 for services to children's literature.〔(Contemporarywriters - Joan Lingard )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joan Lingard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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