Jack Gantos - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	02-July-1951
Place of Birth	Mount Pleasant (Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	John Bryan Gantos, Jr.
Profession	Author, Writer, Novelist
Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the fictional characters Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph is a cat who stars in ten picture books written by Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel from 1976 to 2011. Joey Pigza is a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, featured in four novels from 1998 to 2007. Gantos won the 2011 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing Dead End in Norvelt as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". Dead End also won the 2012 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and made the Guardian Prize longlist in Britain. His 2002 memoir Hole in My Life was a runner up for the ALA Printz Award and Sibert Medal. Previously Gantos was a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award and a finalist for the Newbery Medal for two Joey Pigza books.

Awards by Jack Gantos

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jack Gantos.

2012

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Dead End in Norvelt

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Dead End in Norvelt
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize	Dead End in Norvelt

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	What Would Joey Do? 5 up

2003

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Sibert Medal	Hole in My Life
Michael L. Printz Award	Hole in My Life Honor Book

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Joey Pigza Loses Control

2001

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Joey Pigza Loses Control

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Joey Pigza Loses Control

1998

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature	Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

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