Susan Cooper - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	23-May-1935
Place of Birth	Burnham (United Kingdom, Buckinghamshire)
Nationality	United States of America, United Kingdom
Also know as	Susan Mary Cooper, Susan Cooper Cronyn, Susan M. Grant
Profession	Novelist, Screenwriter, Journalist, Author, Playwright
Susan Mary Cooper is an English-born American author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as the Arthurian legends, and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council.

Awards by Susan Cooper

Check all the awards nominated and won by Susan Cooper.

2007

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature	Victory

2006

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2005

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2004

Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize	King of Shadows

1999

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies	Dreams and wishes

1998

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature	The Boggart and the monster

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature	The Boggart

1995

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Honored for : The Boggart

1989

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Long Form - Television

Honored for : Hallmark Hall of Fame

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Long Form - Television	Hallmark Hall of Fame For episode \"Foxfire\"

1988

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special	Hallmark Hall of Fame Foxfire

1984

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special	The Dollmaker Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or A Special

1978

Best English-Language Book

Honored for : Silver on the Tree

Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel	Silver on the Tree

1976

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Grey King

Best English-Language Book

Honored for : The Grey King

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	The Grey King

1974

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Dark is Rising

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	The Dark is Rising
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award	The Dark is Rising

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