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Bernard Ashley
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1935
Bernard John Ashley is a British author of books for children and young adults. His debut novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft, published in 1974, won "The Other Award", an alternative to the Carnegie Medal. A Kind of Wild Justice (1978), Running Scared (1986), and Little Soldier (1999) were commended runners up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book. The first two have been reissued by OUP in their Children's Modern Classics series, the third re-issued in a 15th anniversary edition. Ashley's TV drama Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment programme (BBC) in 1993.
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1935
Bernard John Ashley is a British author of books for children and young adults. His debut novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft, published in 1974, won "The Other Award", an alternative to the Carnegie Medal. A Kind of Wild Justice (1978), Running Scared (1986), and Little Soldier (1999) were commended runners up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book. The first two have been reissued by OUP in their Children's Modern Classics series, the third re-issued in a 15th anniversary edition. Ashley's TV drama Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment programme (BBC) in 1993.
Bernard Ashley was born in 1935 in Woolwich, United Kingdom.
He is a renowned British author specializing in children's and young adult literature.
His prolific career includes a catalog of 138 published works.
Many of his stories are deeply set in the city of London.
His work A Present for Paul stands out as one of his most iconic titles.
