Awards & Winners

Ruth Thomas

Date of Birth 04-January-1927
Place of Birth Wellington
(United Kingdom, Taunton Deane)
Nationality England
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
Ruth Thomas was an English author of children's fiction. For her first novel, The Runaways, she won the 1988 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Thomas was born in Wellington, Somerset, England, to two primary school teachers. Her books draw on her own experiences as a primary school teacher, at first in East London; during the 1980s in Kensal Green, north west London. Books include The Runaways, The Class that Went Wild, The New Boy, The Secret, Guilty, The Paper Bag Baby and Hideaway.

Awards by Ruth Thomas

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ruth Thomas.

1988


Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Honored for : The Runaways

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Runaways