Talk:Geraldine McCaughrean

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Geraldine McCaughrean was the best writer i have ever known comment from: Allison Miller (if you want to paste comments press edit)

Removal by --DThomsen8 (talk) 11:31, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Career and Awards[edit]

heavily revised after completing the rearrangement and expansion next day

I have replaced the one heading "Literary career" with two, "Career" and "Awards". The content of "Career" is gathered from the lead and Literary career sections, and expanded mainly re Peter Pan in Scarlet. The content of "Awards" is what remains of Literary career, expanded mainly re the Carnegie Medal, with listings re-formatted. One line doesn't belong without some clarification and citation:

(quote) McCaughrean has also won awards for her writing in Germany and America.

(One American award is listed, the 2008 Printz Award.)

"lead, Career and Awards" do not fit the content perfectly, for their is one biographical sentence that simply reports her number of siblings! Of course a Life section will be welcome. --P64 (talk) 20:49, 13 July 2012 (UTC) --P64 (talk) 16:12, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Carnegie Medal achievements[edit]

While expanding the Carnegie Medal coverage, among other things, I have deleted this remark.

McCaughrean became the first author to have had six titles short-listed, with at least one during each of the last four decades.

I don't know whether it means that she was the first to reach the shortlist six times, or merely first to make six shortlists in four decades. The former would be notable if true, because six would be the maximum number of shortlist books for any author (shared with anyone who achieved number six this year).

By the way, one Medalist and one Highly Commended book is a good performance! --P64 (talk) 16:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Retellings[edit]

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Her work includes many retellings of classic stories for children: The Odyssey, El Cid, The Canterbury Tales, The Pilgrim's Progress, Moby Dick, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Gilgamesh.

Does the list of works include any of those 7 retellings, or any others? --P64 (talk) 18:16, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]