Paula Fox - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	22-April-1923
Place of Birth	New York City (New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Novelist, Author, Writer
Paula Fox is an American writer of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She has also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan. Her adult novels went out of print in 1992. In the mid nineties she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers.

Awards by Paula Fox

Check all the awards nominated and won by Paula Fox.

2002

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir

2001

New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Honored for : Borrowed Finery

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography	Borrowed Finery

1985

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : One-Eyed Cat

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	One-Eyed Cat

1983

National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)

Honored for : A Place Apart

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)	A Place Apart

1981

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)	A Place Apart

1979

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children's Books	The Little Swineherd and Other Tales

1978

Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing

1974

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Slave Dancer

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	The Slave Dancer

1972

Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada	(Fiction)

1971

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children's Books	Blowfish Live in the Sea

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