Joan lingard biography

Scottish writer (2000–2022)

Joan LingardMBE (8 April 1932 – 12 July 2022) was a Scottish writer. Lingard was born in Edinburgh, Scotland,) but spent many years living in Belfast, Northern Ireland.^[1]

Career

Lingard wrote novels for both adults and children.^[2] She is known for the young adults aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and had been translated into several languages as of 2010.^[3]

Her first novel Liam's Daughter was an adult-orientated novel published in 1963.

Her first children's novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970.^[2]

Lingard received the Buxtehuder Bulle award in 1986 for Across the Barricades.

Tug of War has also received great success: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1989, The Federation of Children's Book Group Award 1989, runner-up in the Lancashire Children's Book Club of the year 1990 and shortli