Lois Lowry - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	20-March-1937
Place of Birth	Honolulu (United States of America, Honolulu County, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Oahu, Area code 808)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Lois Ann Hammersberg
Profession	Novelist, Writer, Author
Lois Lowry is an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books and an autobiography. She has won two Newbery Medals, for Number the Stars in 1989 and The Giver in 1993. For her contribution as a children's writer, she was a finalist in 2000 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. In 2007 she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her contribution in writing for teens. As an author, Lowry is known for writing about difficult subject matters within her works for children. She has explored such complex issues as racism, terminal illness, murder, and the Holocaust among other challenging topics. She has also explored very controversial issues of questioning authority such as in The Giver quartet. Her writing on such matters has brought her both praise and criticism. In particular, her work The Giver has been met with a diversity of reactions from schools in America, some of which have adopted her book as a part of the mandatory curriculum, while others have prohibited the book's inclusion in classroom studies.

Awards by Lois Lowry

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lois Lowry.

2012

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Teen Choice Award for Choice Book	The Giver

2010

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2009

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2008

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Gossamer 5 up

2005

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Gooney Bird Greene 4 up
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

1994

Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Giver

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	The Giver
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature	The Giver

1991

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Honored for : Number the Stars

1990

National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature

Honored for : Number the Stars

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Number the Stars

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Jane Addams Children's Book Award	Number the Stars
John Newbery Medal	Number the Stars

1983

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)	Anastasia Again!

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