Joan Aiken
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English writer (1924–2004)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 September 1924
- Died
- 4 January 2004
- Works
- 334
Top works
- Hainings Gruselkabinett
- Chilling Christmas Tales
- Yagmur Damlalarindan Kolye
- A Fit of Shivers / In Black and White
- Das Magische Zimmer
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Spain
techno
Discography
- Lost Origins2010
- Entrance:One2010
- Delta Particle2010
- Scientific Methods2011
- Mer2011
- Balance2012
- Syntagma2013
- Eternal Dreamer2013
- Looking Inward2014
- Words For Silence2014
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 42
- Total plays
- 424
Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternate history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library A
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Rye
- Father
- Conrad Aiken
- Occupation
- editor
- Employer
- J. Walter Thompson
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Edgar Awards
- Official website
- www.joanaiken.com
- Image
- JoanAiken.jpg
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- Commons category
- Joan Aiken
- date of birth
- 1924-09-04
- date of death
- 2004-01-04
- birth name
- Joan Delano Aiken
- name in native language
- Joan Delano Aiken Brown Goldsteinjkijiu
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