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Anne Fine, OBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is a British writer, best known for children's books although she also writes for adults. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she was awarded an OBE in 2003.〔 〕 Fine has written more than fifty children's books including two winners of the annual Carnegie Medal and three highly commended runners-up.〔 For some of those five books she also won the Guardian Prize, one Smarties Prize, two Whitbread Awards, and she was twice the Children's Author of the Year. For her contribution as a children's writer Fine was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998.〔〔 From 2001 to 2003 she was the second British Children's Laureate.〔 ==Life== Fine was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, and educated in neighbouring midland counties of England. She attended Northampton High School and earned a degree in politics from the University of Warwick. She was married to the philosopher Kit Fine until they were divorced; she has now been with her partner Dick Warren for more than 20 years.〔 She currently lives in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. She and Kit Fine have two daughters, Cordelia Fine and Ione Fine. She has four sisters; her father was an electrical engineer and she grew up in Fareham, Hampshire. The eldest of the sisters is Elizabeth Arnold who also writes books for children; the three younger sisters were triplets. She studied History and Politics at university, got married and then her daughter Cordelia was born. At the age of 24 she wrote her first book.〔Hollindale, Peter (1999) ''An Interview with Anne Fine''. London: Mammoth 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Fine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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