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Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (born 16 December 1927) is a prolific English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ''Tulku'' (1979) and ''City of Gold'' (1980), each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.〔〔 Through 2012 he is one of seven writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. He was also a highly commended runner-up for ''Eva'' (1988) and four times a commended runner-up.〔 For his contributions as a children's writer Dickinson was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000.〔〔 ==Life== Dickinson was born in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), the second of four sons to a man in the colonial service and a farmer's daughter. He loved stories about knights in armour and explorers, such as ''Ivanhoe'' and ''King Solomon's Mines'', and read "anything by Kipling", who influenced his writing greatly. His parents moved to England so that he and his brothers could attend English schools. His father died suddenly but Peter entered Saint Ronan's prep school in 1936 with support from the family. His novel ''Hindsight'' is based on the period in Devon after the school was evacuated from Kent during the war. He entered Eton College in 1941. Dickinson was at Eton until 1946. After completing his National Service (1946–48), he studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951. For seventeen years he worked as assistant editor, resident poet and reviewer for ''Punch'' magazine.〔Townsend (1978), 371.〕 His first two books were published in 1968 and very well received, one mystery for adults and one science fiction for children. He completed sequels to both debut novels and left ''Punch'' to be a full-time author next year. He continued to write poetry for entertainment and occasionally on commission. Dickinson married Mary Rose Barnard in 1953; the couple had two daughters and two sons including the author John Dickinson.〔 Mary Rose died in 1988, the same year that the first two grandchildren were born. As of 2009 there are six grandchildren.〔 In 1983, Dickinson had met Robin McKinley, an American author of fantasy, some written for children. After a long friendship, they married in 1991. She said in 2009 that she cannot judge the literary work of people she likes personally, but: "Fortunately I had been passionately devoted to his books years before I met him so I can merely go on thinking they're wonderful and he's brilliant now."〔McKinley, Robin (2009). ("Are you married? Do you have any children?" ). Retrieved 21 November 2012.〕 Dickinson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. He has been chairman of the Society of Authors. For years he listed manual labour as one pastime; at 85 he listed only bridge and gardening.〔 He no longer visits schools or delivers talks. 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「Peter Dickinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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