Anne Fine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anne Fine

British writer, best known for children's books although she also writes for adults

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1947

Place of Birth: Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, author, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Anne Fine, OBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer.
Although best known for children's books, she also writes for adults.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she was appointed an OBE in 2003.Fine has written more than seventy 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 Children's Laureate in the UK.