![]() Laird has received several awards for her work, and has been shortlisted six times for the Carnegie Medal for British children's literature. Laird has been a judge of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction since its inception in 2010.: 4 Laird's first children's novel, Red Sky in the Morning (Heinemann, 1988), was inspired in some measure by her brother's life. ![]() He suffered severe disabilities and died in 1949. The family settled in Purley, near London in 1945. She was the fourth child of her Scottish father and New Zealand mother. Her books have been translated into at least twenty languages. She is also known for the large body of folktales which she collected from the regions of Ethiopia. ![]() British children's writerFor the Canadian physicist, see Elizabeth Laird (physicist).Įlizabeth Laird (born 1943) is a British writer of children's fiction and travel. ![]()
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