Robin Klein

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Robin Klein
BornRobin McMaugh Klein
28 February 1936 (1936-02-28) (age 89)
Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
Genre Children's, young adult fiction
Notable works Hating Alison Ashley , Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left , Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

Robin McMaugh Klein (born 28 February 1936) [1] is an Australian author of books for children. She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, and now resides near Melbourne.

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Early life

Robin Klein is one of nine children. [2] She had her first short story published at the age of 16. She worked in a number of jobs before becoming an established writer, including tea lady at a warehouse, bookshop assistant, nurse, copper enamelist, and program aide at a school for disadvantaged children. [3] In 1981, she was awarded a Literature Board grant for writing, and since then, she has published more than 20 books. She is the poet of the poem "Amanda!". Robin Klein was educated at Newcastle Girls' High School. [4]

Career

Several of her books have been short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia (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 Headline, 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

References

  1. ↑ "Klein, Robin, 1936–". Libraries Australia. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  2. ↑ Robin Klein. IMDb.com
  3. ↑ "Robin Klein (1936-) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Honors Awards, Writings, Adaptations, Sidelights". biography.jrank.org. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  4. ↑ "Robin Klein: (author/organisation) | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "CYSS [NSW] Nancy Booker Honour Lecture 2000 by Margaret Hamilton". ALIA Children's and Youth Services (NSW). Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  6. ↑ "1989 Human Rights Medal and Awards". Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.

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