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词条 Gene Kemp
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  1. Background

  2. Awards

  3. Selected works

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}{{Use British English|date=December 2015}}Gene Kemp née Rushton (27 December 1926 – 4 January 2015) was an English author best known for her children's books. Her first novel, The Pride of Tamworth Pig, appeared in 1972. She won the British Carnegie Medal for The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (1977).[1]

Background

Gene Kemp was born in Wigginton, Staffordshire in 1926 grew up near Tamworth, Staffordshire, and went to Exeter University. She became a teacher and taught at St Sidwell's School in Exeter in the 1970s.[1]

From 1972 she wrote stories for young readers about a pig named Tamworth, named after the town she grew up in.

Her best known book is The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, published by Faber's Children's Books in 1977. Set in the fictional Cricklepit School, it charts the pleasures and pains of friendship and growing up. There are several Cricklepit books, including Snaggletooth's Mystery, an alternative history of the school, and Gowie Corby Plays Chicken, set one year after The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler and referencing Tyke in several chapters.

Kemp wrote ghost stories and fantasy as well as realistic fiction, like Seriously Weird, which is told from the perspective of the sister of a young man with Asperger syndrome. She also dramatised some of her work, the most successful and well-known of these being Charlie Lewis Plays for Time, another Cricklepit story.

Gene Kemp was awarded an Honorary MA from Exeter University in 1984. She lived in Exeter and had three children – a daughter, Judith, from her first marriage to Norman Pattison, which ended in divorce, and another daughter, Chantal, and a son, Richard, from her second marriage, to Allan Kemp, who died in 1990. She had three grandchildren and two great-grandsons.[2] Kemp died at the age of 88 on 4 January 2015.[3]

Awards

  • Kemp won two major awards for The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (1997): the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, for the year's best children's book by a British subject,[1] and one from the Children's Rights Workshop.[4]
  • She made the Smarties Prize shortlist four times, in 1981 for The Clock Tower Ghost, 1985 for Charlie Lewis Plays for Time, 1986 for Juniper and 1990 for Just Ferret.

Selected works

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As editor
  • Ducks and Dragons
  • The Puffin Book of Ghosts and Ghouls
Cricklepit series
  • The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (1977)
  • Gowie Corby Plays Chicken (1981)
  • Charlie Lewis Plays for Time (1984)
  • Just Ferret (1990)
  • Zowey Corby's Story (1995)
  • Zowey Corby and the Black Cat Tunnel (1996)
  • Snaggletooth's Mystery (2002)
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Other books as author
  • Dog Days and Cat Naps (1980)
  • The Clock Tower Ghost (1981)
  • Jason Bodger and the Priory Ghost (1985)
  • Juniper (1986)
  • Mr Magus is Waiting for You (1986)
  • I Can't Stand Losing (1987)
  • The Well (1988)
  • No Place Like (1989)
  • Seriously Weird (2003)
  • The Haunted Piccolo (2004)
  • Nothing Scares Me (2006)
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See also

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References

1. ^{{cite web |author=David Cornforth |url=http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_people/kemp.php |title=Gene Kemp |publisher=Exeter Memories |date= |accessdate=2012-08-20}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/13/gene-kemp-obituary |title=Gene Kemp obituary |first=Julia |last=Eccleshare |date=13 January 2015 |publisher= |via=The Guardian}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Carnegie-prize-winning-Exeter-author-teacher-Gene/story-25831133-detail/story.html |title=Carnegie prize winning Exeter author and teacher Gene Kemp dies aged 88 |date=9 January 2015 |publisher= |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112070908/http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Carnegie-prize-winning-Exeter-author-teacher-Gene/story-25831133-detail/story.html |archivedate=12 January 2015 |df=dmy-all}}
4. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/t747r2xwg4384015/ |title= Children are real people: the stories of Gene Kemp |publisher=SpringerLink |date= |accessdate=2012-08-20 |doi=10.1007/BF01146903 |volume=10 |journal=Children's Literature in Education |pages=131–140}}
5. ^1 2 (Carnegie Winner 1977). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
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External links

  • {{isfdb name |30603 |Gene Kemp}}
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