Penelope Lively


Penelope Lively

Lively in 2013
Lively in 2013
BornPenelope Margaret Low
(1933-03-17) 17 March 1933 (age 91)
Cairo, Egypt
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
EducationSt Anne's College, Oxford
Period1970–present
GenreNovels, short stories, children's fiction (notably contemporary fantasy)
Notable awardsCarnegie Medal
1973
Booker Prize
1987
Spouse
(m. 1957; died 1998)
Children2, including Adam Lively
RelativesValentine Low (half-brother)
Rachel Reckitt (aunt)[1]
Website
penelopelively.co.uk

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (née Low; born 17 March 1933)[2] 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).

  1. ^ Cressida Connolly (26 August 2001). "So many rooms - but no room for sentiment". The Observer. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dame was invoked but never defined (see the help page).