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Tim Bowler

{{Short description|English author (born 1953)}}

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{{Use British English|date=May 2013}}

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| birth_place = Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England

| nationality = English

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Tim Bowler (born 14 November 1953) is an author of books for teenagers and young adults. He won the 1997 Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for the novel River Boy.

The Sunday Telegraph has called him "the master of the psychological thriller"{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3656896/From-toddlers-to-teens.html | title=From toddlers to teens | first=Dinah | last=Hall | date=2 December 2006 | newspaper=The Sunday Telegraph | access-date=21 May 2020 }} and The Independent "one of the truly individual voices in voices in British teenage fiction".The Independent {{full citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Biography

Bowler was born in Leigh-on-Sea, and educated at the University of East Anglia where he studied Swedish and Scandinavian studies.{{cite web |title=Tim Bowler – Literature |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/tim-bowler |website=literature.britishcouncil.org |access-date=3 May 2021}}

His first published novel was Midget (1994), a psychological thriller set in Leigh-on-Sea. This has been followed by several other novels: Dragon's Rock (1995), a thriller set in Devon; River Boy (1997), a story about love and bereavement and winner of the Carnegie Medal; Shadows (1999), a love story; Storm Catchers (2001), a kidnap thriller; Starseeker (2002), an exploration of love, loss and music, also made into a play; Apocalypse (2004), an allegory about the future of mankind; Frozen Fire (2006), a philosophical thriller about the nature of reality; Bloodchild (2008), a story about memory, secrets and betrayal; Buried Thunder (2011), a dark psychological thriller; and Sea of Whispers (2013), a haunting and mysterious story set on the remote island of Mora.

Blade (2008 to 2013) is a series of urban thrillers. Reviewing it for The Bookbag, Jill Murphy wrote, "Nobody in children's writing is producing anything like this. It's electrifying."[http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Blade:_Mixing_It_by_Tim_Bowler The Bookbag] Some editions in translation (e.g. Germany and Korea) are four books, each comprising two original volumes.

Bowler speaks at conferences, schools, and book festivals and makes regular appearances on radio. He lives in a village in Devon and writes in a small stone outhouse.[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5181C879112a313AE2jru1D116C1 Contemporary Writers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214181247/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5181C879112a313AE2jru1D116C1 |date=14 December 2010 }}

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Awards

  • 1995 Midget won the Boekenwelp Award (Belgium)
  • 1995 Midget won the New York Library Book of the Teen Age (USA)
  • 1997 River Boy won the Carnegie Medal
  • 1999 River Boy won the Angus Book Award[http://www.angus.gov.uk/bookaward/default.htm Angus Book Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070731050104/http://www.angus.gov.uk/bookaward/default.htm |date=31 July 2007 }}
  • 2000 Shadows won the Angus Book Award
  • 2000 Shadows won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year[http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries/services/children/cboty/default_new.asp Lancashire Children's Book of the Year] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205123028/http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries/services/children/cboty/default_new.asp |date=5 December 2007 }}
  • 2002 Storm Catchers won the South Lanarkshire Book Award
  • 2002 Storm Catchers won the Stockton Libraries Award
  • 2002 Storm Catchers won the Stockport Schools' Book Award
  • 2007 Frozen Fire won the Hull Book Award
  • 2007 Frozen Fire won the Highland Book Award[http://highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/hba/index.html Highland Book Award]
  • 2007 Frozen Fire won the Redbridge Book Award[http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/education__learning/libraries/schools_library_service/childrens_book_award.aspx Redbridge Book Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407124813/http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/education__learning/libraries/schools_library_service/childrens_book_award.aspx |date=7 April 2008 }}
  • 2007 Frozen Fire won the Stockport Schools Book Award
  • 2008 Frozen Fire won the South Lanarkshire Children's Book Award[http://www.slc-learningcentres.org.uk/bookaward/details08.htm South Lanarkshire Children's Book Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007111912/http://www.slc-learningcentres.org.uk/bookaward/details08.htm |date=7 October 2008 }}
  • 2009 Frozen Fire won the Southern Schools Book Award

References

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[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=61 (Carnegie Winner 1997)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608045052/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=61 |date=8 June 2009 }}. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-08-17.

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External links

{{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature|Speculative fiction/Horror}}

  • {{official website |http://www.timbowler.co.uk/ }}
  • {{british council |tim-bowler }}
  • {{ISFDB name |4234 |Tim Bowler }}
  • [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/tim-bowler/ Tim Bowler at Fantastic Fiction]
  • [http://www.oup.com/oxed/children/authors/bowler/ Tim Bowler at Oxford University Press]
  • [http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Category:Tim_Bowler Tim Bowler at The Bookbag]
  • [http://users.skynet.be/beatola/wot/bowlerwraith.html The motif of the wraith in Tim Bowler's early work] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628231936/http://users.skynet.be/beatola/wot/bowlerwraith.html |date=28 June 2011 }}
  • [http://www.oup.com/oxed/children/blade/ Blade mini-site]

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Category:English children's writers

Category:British writers of young adult literature

Category:Carnegie Medal in Literature winners

Category:People from Leigh-on-Sea

Category:People educated at Westcliff High School for Boys

Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia

Category:1953 births

Category:Living people