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Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (née Low; born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark.
Mar 16, 2023 · Published March 16, 2023. When Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987, it was for a novel - Moon Tiger - that featured an ambitious, uncompromising heroine, as easily located in the 21st century as in her own Second World War context.
Penelope Lively, British writer of well-plotted novels and short stories that stress the significance of memory and historical continuity. She won the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger. Other notable novels included The Road to Lichfield and Treasures of Time. Learn more about her life and career.
Novelist and children's writer Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933 and brought up there. She came to England in 1945, went to school in Sussex, and read Modern History at St Ann's College, Oxford.
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger.
Penelope Lively. Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987 and has also been shortlisted twice - in 1977 and 1984. She was born in Cairo and is the author of many prize-winning novels and short story collections for both adults and children.
Jun 22, 2018 · “I’ve been lucky enough to keep my marbles,” says Penelope Lively. At 85, the British author seems far younger than her years: her marbles have always been formidable, and obviously remain so.
May 4, 2017 · The British novelist Penelope Lively is fascinated by contingency — the idea that an entire life is shaped by small decisions that seem inconsequential at the time.
Penelope Lively, The Art of Fiction No. 241. Interviewed by Lucy Scholes. Issue 226, Fall 2018. Penelope Lively was born to British parents in Cairo in 1933, where her father was assistant to the director of the National Bank of Egypt.
