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Katherine Paterson
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
(born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born
American
writer best known for
children's novels
. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two
Newbery Medals
and two
National Book Awards
. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial
Hans Christian Andersen Award
for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the
NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature
in 2007 and the
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
from the
American Library Association
in 2013. She was the second U.S.
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
, serving 2010 and 2011.
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