Sylvia Waugh


Sylvia Waugh is a British writer of children's books.

Biography

Sylvia Waugh was born in Gateshead, County Durham, Northern England and attended Gateshead Grammar School. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh began her writing career in her late fifties. Her first book, The Mennyms, was published by Julia McRae in 1993. She won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers and made the Carnegie Medal shortlist. She continued "the Mennyms" as a cycle of five books that have appeared in seventeen languages. The Ormingat books received good reviews and have been published in Japanese and Spanish.

Selected works

The Mennyms
Ormingat trilogy
Beside winning the Guardian Prize and making the Carnegie Medal shortlist, The Mennyms was recognised in other ways: