![]() ![]() He published nearly 50 books, predominantly SF and mainstream children’s and YA novels, and adult crime novels and thrillers. ![]() He wrote one unambiguous adult SF novel, The Green Gene (1973). Other YA and children’s novels with speculative elements include Emma Tupper’s Diary (1971) The Gift (1973) Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize winner The Blue Hawk (1976) Annerton Pit (1977) Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Children’s Book Award winner Tulku (1979) Healer (1983) Eva (1988) A Bone from a Dry Sea (1992) Time and the Clockmice, Etcetera (1993) The Kin (1998) The Ropemaker (2001) and sequel Angel Isle (2006) The Tears of the Salamander (2003) Inside Grandad (2004) and In the Palace of the Khans (2012). ![]() His debut YA The Weathermonger (1968) began the Changes SF trilogy, which continued with Heartsease (1969) and The Devil’s Children (1970). He is best known for his numerous works for children and young adults, and is one of only seven authors to win two Carnegie Medals (he was the first) no one has three. Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson was born Decemin Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Author Peter Dickinson, 88, died Decemin Winchester, Hampshire on his birthday. ![]()
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