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SUMMARY:The Stranger Within Me - Aidan Chambers
DTSTART:20151027T170000Z
DTEND:20151027T183000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:*Aidan Chambers* will talk about how criticism has helped form
  his fiction\, and how writing fiction has influenced his criticism. He be
 lieves that criticism is a literary art\, which\, at its best\, equals the
  best of literary writing. He also believes that literature depends on the
  quality of criticism for its development and renewal. Both have influence
 d his teaching in secondary school\, undergraduate\, and in-service course
 s.  \n\nMr Chambers is best known for a sequence of six novels of adolesce
 nce\, beginning with _Breaktime _published in 1978 and concluding with _Th
 is is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn_\, published in 2005. The Carn
 egie Medal was awarded to the fifth book in the sequence\, _Postcards from
  No Man’s Land_ (1999)\, and in 2002 he received the Hans Christian Ande
 rsen Medal for the body of his work. His books have been translated into s
 ixteen languages. Of his writings for teachers and librarians _Tell Me: Ch
 ildren\, Reading & Talk_ is the most widely read\, with editions in the US
  and Canada and translations into seven other languages. His article _The 
 Reader in the Book_ received the first Children’s Literature Association
  (US) award for critical writing in 1979. 
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS5
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