![]() ![]() He went on to win the Medal once more in 1982 for The Scarecrows. Westall's best known work was the Children's novel The Machine Gunners, published in 1975 and winner of the Carnegie Medal that year. After spending two years in the British Army he went on to teach Art and write for various publications, including being an art critic for the Guardian newspaper. ![]() He held a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from Durham University and a post-graduate degree in Sculpture from the Slade School of Art in London. ".take readers by the scruff of the neck and shake them and scare them and make them think for themselves."īest-known for his Children's and Young Adult fiction, Robert Atkinson Westall (7 October 1929 – 15 April 1993) was born in North Shields and grew up on Tyneside during the Second World War. ![]()
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