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Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television.
John Rowe Townsend. Leon Garfield was one of the leading children's writers of his day, and a reteller and adapter of Shakespeare's plays. He described his aim as a novelist as being "to write ...
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The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970. It was awarded the annual Carnegie Medal (Garfield & Blishen) and commended for the companion Greenaway Medal (Keeping) by the British Library Association.
- Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen, Zevi Blum
- 168 pp (first edition)
- 1970
- 26 October 1970
contribution to children’s literature. Leon Garfield, though not working with historical characters, created strange picaresque tales that gave children a thrilling, often chilling insight into the 18th-century England of Smollett and Fielding. Other articles where Leon Garfield is discussed: children’s literature: Historical fiction: Leon ...
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award.
14 July 1921 - 2 June 1996. Leon Garfield was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. Garfield's novels for children all have historical settings, mainly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Leon Garfield has 107 books on Goodreads with 9702 ratings. Leon Garfield’s most popular book is Smith.
