On this day 100 years ago, North East children’s author and playwright Eva Ibbotson was born. Born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner in Vienna on 21 January 1925, her family left Austria when Hitler came to power. She was just nine years old. Her childhood was spent in London, at boarding school in Devon and between divorced parents. When Eva first arrived, she didn’t speak a word of English, “When I came to England I read myself into the English language. I went to Hampstead public library and took down whatever I saw.” After meeting her husband Alan Ibbotson, an ecologist, they moved to Newcastle where they raised their four children with the settled childhood Eva never had. She wrote short stories between domestic duties and wrote her first book aged nearly 50. She went on to write more than twenty books and in 2001 won the Smarties Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for her novel Journey to the River Sea, in tribute to her beloved late husband. Themes of home, refugees and immigration run through her magical, imaginative and humorous books. Because of her own unhappy childhood, she wanted to give other children happiness. “When I came to write, consciously or unconsciously I always wanted to make things right for the hero or the heroine." Eva died at her home in Newcastle in 2010, aged eighty-five. In memory of Eva, her family are generously supporting a new writing award for young writers, as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards. The Eva Ibbotson Award is for writers aged 11-15 living in the North of England who are writing in English as an additional language. Their writing can be in any form - prose, poetry, scriptwriting, blogging, songwriting or rap. “We are so pleased to support this award which recognises the creative voice of young people who have recently experienced a new country, language and culture. Our mother Eva Ibbotson would have been delighted that this award has been set up in her name.” - Lalage Bosanquet and Justin Ibbotson. If you know of a talented young person, writing in English as an additional language, please encourage them to apply - or nominate them - for this prize before 6 February: https://lnkd.in/e5BXf2jp
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