词条 | Polly Horvath |
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Horvath was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She has been writing since the age of eight. She attended college in Toronto as well as the Canadian College of Dance. She lived in New York City and Montreal before settling on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.[1] She was a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1999 (The Trolls)[3] and a runner-up for the Newbery Medal in 2002 (Everything on a Waffle)[4] before winning the National Book Award. She won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2013 for One Year in Coal Harbor. Horvath once declared: "I don't have that much fun writing them. I have the most fun when I'm on the last page." She is married to Arnie Keller. They have two daughters, Emily and Rebecca. Books
See also{{Portal bar |Children's literature |Canada}}References1. ^"About Polly Horvath". Polly Horvath. Retrieved 2012-03-26. 2. ^1 [https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1999 "National Book Awards – 1999"]. NBF. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 3. ^1 "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". Association for Library Service to Children. (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA). "The John Newbery Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2012-04-15. 4. ^1 [https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2003 "National Book Awards – 2003"]. National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26. (With acceptance speech by Horvath an introduction by jury chair Susan Campbell Bartoletti: this year's entries "reveal that there are few or no subject boundaries left between books for young people and books for adults.") External links
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