Robin Klein

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Robin Klein
Born 28 February 1936 (1936-02-28) (age 80)
Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
Genre Children's and young adult fiction
Notable works Hating Alison Ashley, Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

Robin McMaugh Klein is an Australian author of books for children. She was born 28 February 1936, in Kempsey, New South Wales and now resides near Melbourne.

Early life

Robin Klein was one of nine children.[1] She had her first short story published at the age of sixteen. She worked in number of jobs before becoming an established writer, such as tea lady at a warehouse, as a bookshop assistant, a nurse, copper enamelist, and program aide at a school for disadvantaged children.[2] In 1981 she was awarded a Literature Board grant for writing and since then she has had more than twenty books published. Robin Klein went to and was educated in Newcastle Girls' High School[3]

Career

Several of her books have been short-listed for the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award, including Hating Alison Ashley (also a film starring Delta Goodrem) and Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (filmed as a television series for the Seven Network in 1992). Klein's novel Came Back to Show You I Could Fly won a Human Rights Award for Literature in 1989 and also won the 1990 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. It was filmed as Say a Little Prayer in 1993.

Several of her other books have received awards in Australia, including the South Australian Festival Award for Literature, which she won in 1998 with The Listmaker. Many others including Boss of the Pool have also won or been short listed.

Robin Klein suffered an aneurysm rupture, and, while she survived, since 2005 she has lived in a nursing home and is no longer able to write or do significant publicity work for her books.

Awards

Bibliography

Collections

Penny Pollard books

illustrated by Ann James

  1. Penny Pollard's Diary (Oxford University Press, 1983)
  2. Penny Pollard's Letters (Oxford University Press, 1984)
  3. Penny Pollard in Print (Oxford University Press, 1986)
  4. Penny Pollard's Passport (Oxford University Press, 1988)
  5. Penny Pollard's Guide to Modern Manners (Oxford University Press, 1989)
  6. Penny Pollard's Scrapbook (Hodder Children's Books Australia, 1999)

Thing books

  1. Thing (Oxford University Press, 1982) illustrated by Alison Lester
  2. Thingnapped! (Oxford University Press, 1984)
  3. Thing Finds a Job (Hodder Headline, 1996), illustrated by Alison Lester
  4. Thing's Concert (Hodder Healine, 1996), illustrated by Alison Lester
  5. Thing's Birthday (Hodder Headline, 1996), illustrated by Alison Lester
  6. Thingitis (Hodder Headline, 1996), illustrated by Alison Lester

Miscellaneous

Adaptations

Television

Stage

Film

Notes

  1. ↑ Robin Klein. IMDb.com
  2. ↑ Robin Klein (1936–) Biography – Personal, Addresses, Career, Honors Awards, Writings, Adaptations, Sidelights – Australia, Illustrated, Books, and Review – JRank Articles. Biography.jrank.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-13.
  3. ↑ “Robin Klein.” Accessed August 4, 2014. http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16968.
  4. ↑ "CYSS [NSW] Nancy Booker Honour Lecture 2000 by Margaret Hamilton". ALIA Children's and Youth Services (NSW). Retrieved 2007-08-11.
  5. ↑ "1989 Human Rights Medal and Awards". Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. Retrieved 2007-08-11.

References

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