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African-Born Paver Wins U.K.’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
African-born writer Michelle Paver is winner of the 2010 Guardian children’s fiction prize for Ghost Hunter, the sixth and final book in her bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, which follows a young boy called Torak and his wolf companion and their quest to defeat an evil group. Paver was born in what is now Malawi, where her South African father ran the tiny Nyasaland Times, and her Belgian mother wrote a weekly gossip column.Julia Eccleshare, chair of the judges, hailed the series. “It’s relatively rare for a book late in a series to win a major prize, but the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is such a towering achievement, as a whole as well as in terms of the individual books, that it was our unanimous choice.”
Founded in 1967, the Guardian children’s fiction prize is judged by children’s authors and can only be won once by any single author. This year’s judges included Linda Buckley-Archer, Jenny Downham, and last year’s prizewinner Mal Peet.
Paver joins past winners including Ted Hughes, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine and Philip Pullman.
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- Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Ghost Hunter by Michelle Paver
EAN: 9780060728403
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