Talk:Robert Swindells

Vandalism
It's irritating. 194.46.237.55 18:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Six years later. WP: VANDAL is persistent here. If I clerk correctly we have at least six vandal sessions in three months since my previous visit (19:19, 17 August 2012). The history clearly shows six reverts since then: three by humans, all 8 Sep, and three by Cluebot. Unfortunately, Cluebot catches only the preceding session, it seems to me.
 * This hour I have manually undone the vandal remnants, primarily 3 Oct and 29 Oct (which could not be done cleanly because others had partly addressed that destruction).
 * Net result: (diffs 17 Aug to 24 Nov) — almost no substantial change
 * Perhaps this article needs some protection?
 * --P64 (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * 2012-11-24 reformat for standard line wrap and paragraph breaks -P64

Robert E. "Bob" Swindells was born 20 March 1939 in Bradford, England, and the first of 5 siblings. He is a children’s and young adult author.

Robert Swindells worked for a local newspaper after leaving school aged 15 he also worked at the Royal Air Force and had lots of different job before training to be a teacher. His first novel When Darkness Comes (which won the Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land 1985) in 1973 when he was in training to be a teacher.

His first novel When Darkness Comes (which won the Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land in 1985. Swindells also won the award for Room 13 in 1990, Nightmare Stairs (Short novel, 1998) and Blitzed (Younger readers, 2003). His young adult novel Stone Cold in1993, which dealt with homelessness, won the Carnegie Medal in 1994.

Robert Swindells is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.183.221.203 (talk) 04:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Book awards
I have deleted the Manchester Book Award as not notable here because our article/list shows about 30 annual "longlist" titles (6 shortlist, 1 winner).
 * 2006 Manchester Book Award longlist, Branded [ref]Manchester Book Award[/ref]

The Hampshire Book Award may be notable here for we show 6 annual shortlist titles. We have no reference for shortlist data. Our award article gives dead External link to one old press release; perhaps annual PR have been our sources there.

The Carnegie Medal highly commended runner up (abandoned after 2002) was about annual and Swindell's 1984 "HC" was unique. --as explained in the Note. --P64 (talk) 20:20, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

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