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Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (née Low; born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark.
Penelope Lively, British writer of well-plotted novels and short stories that stress the significance of memory and historical continuity. She won the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger. Other notable novels included The Road to Lichfield and Treasures of Time. Learn more about her life and career.
Mar 16, 2023 · Published March 16, 2023. When Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize in 1987, it was for a novel - Moon Tiger - that featured an ambitious, uncompromising heroine, as easily located in the 21st century as in her own Second World War context.
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark.
More than just a novelist, Lively is a master of the modern short story, not to mention a popular practitioner of the ghost story, from Uninvited Ghosts and Other Stories (1997) to her recent contribution in Spooky Stories (2008). Lively is also an accomplished writer of non-fiction.
May 4, 2017 · The British novelist Penelope Lively is fascinated by contingency — the idea that an entire life is shaped by small decisions that seem inconsequential at the time.
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