Melvin Burgess

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Melvin Burgess
Born (1954-04-25) 25 April 1954 (age 70)
Twickenham, London, England
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish

Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British writer of

Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author.[1] For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.[2]

Early life

Burgess was born in the Municipal Borough of Twickenham, Middlesex, England (now administered as part of Greater London).

Author

He completed his first book accepted for publication in his mid-thirties: a novel,

grey wolf
in Britain.

Andersen published all of Burgess' books until the mid-1990s. The Baby and Fly Pie (1993) was another highly commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal, a distinction that was roughly annual.[3][a]

Junk won the 1996 Carnegie Medal

six authors, all 1967 to 1996
, who won the Carnegie Medal for their Guardian Prize-winning books.

Kite (1997) features a boy who hatches a red kite egg.

Burgess again attracted controversy in 2003, with the publication of

Doing It, which dealt with underage sex. In the U.S. it was adapted as a television series, Life as We Know It
.

In other books such as

Volsunga Saga
.

In 2001 Burgess wrote the

novelisation of the film Billy Elliot, based on Lee Hall
's screenplay.

Style

Polyphony is a narrative technique used in many of his best known novels.[citation needed]

Works

Novels

Short stories

  • AD 1000 (in Just in Time: Stories to Mark the Millennium, Puffin, 1999)[5]

Television work

  • Autumn 2009 – The Well – BBC Switch/Lime Pictures

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Today there are usually eight books on the Carnegie Medal shortlist. CCSU lists 32 "Highly Commended" runners-up for 1966 to 2002 but only three before 1979 when the distinction became approximately annual. There were 29 "HC" books in 24 years including two in 1990 and two in 1993.
     Burgess was also a "Commended" runner-up for The Ghost Behind the Wall (2000), a distinction used about 135 times from 1955 to 2002.

References

  1. ^ a b c (Carnegie Winner 1996) Archived 6 January 2013 at the
    CILIP
    . Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  2. ^ "70 Years Celebration: Anniversary Top Tens" Archived 27 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine. The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  3. ^ a b "Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Retrieved 2012-07-11.
  4. ^ a b "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners". The Guardian 12 March 2001. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
  5. ISBN 9781137262820
    .

External links
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