Betsy Byars - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	07-August-1928
Place of Birth	Charlotte (North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, United States of America, Area code 704, Area code 980)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Betsy Cromer Byars, Betsy Cromer
Profession	Writer, Novelist, Author
Betsy Cromer Byars is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for The Night Swimmers and an Edgar Award for Wanted ... Mud Blossom. Byars has been called "one of the ten best writers for children in the world" by Nancy Chambers, editor of the British literary journal Signal, and in 1987 Byars received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement from the Catholic Library Association. Due to the popularity of her books with children, she has also been listed as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.

Awards by Betsy Byars

Check all the awards nominated and won by Betsy Byars.

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	Keeper of the Doves 4 up
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

1992

Edgar Award for Best Juvenile

Honored for : Wanted...Mud Blossom

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile	Wanted...Mud Blossom

1981

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

Honored for : The Night Swimmers

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)	The Night Swimmers

1975

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Honored for : Eighteenth Emergency

1973

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children's Books	The house of wings

1971

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Summer of the Swans

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Summer of the Swans

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