Il Carnegie Medal for Writing è un premio che viene assegnato annualmente a scrittori per bambini; fu istituito nel 1936 in onore del filantropo scozzese Andrew Carnegie.
I libri candidati devono essere scritti in inglese e devono essere stati pubblicati nel Regno Unito nell'anno precedente la nomination. La giuria è composta da 13 bibliotecari di biblioteche per ragazzi appartenenti all'organizzazione "Youth Libraries Group of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals". I libri nominati vengono anche inviati a scolari di varie scuole affinché mandino il loro giudizio alla giuria. Viene anche assegnata una menzione al lavoro di illustrazione dei libri con la Kate Greenaway Medal.
L'assegnazione del premio è annunciata ogni giugno e il vincitore riceve una medaglia d'oro e un buono d'acquisto di 500 sterline da spendere in donazioni di libri a biblioteche pubbliche o scolastiche.
Il regolamento originale stabiliva che un autore potesse ricevere la medaglia solo una volta, ma successivamente la regola è stata modificata per poter permettere la valutazione di altre pubblicazioni di un autore già vincitore.
Lista di vincitori Nota: Dal 2007 l'anno si riferisce all'anno un cui la medaglia è stata assegnata, mentre per gli anni precedenti si considera l'anno di pubblicazione del libro.
2025: Margaret McDonald, Glasgow Boys 2024: Joseph Coelho, The Boy Lost in the Maze 2023: Manon Steffan Ros, Il libro blu di Nebo (The Blue Book of Nebo) 2022: Katya Balen, Ottobre, Ottobre (October, October) 2021: Jason Reynolds, Tornando a casa (Look Both Ways) 2020: Anthony McGowan, Il volo dell'allodola (Lark) 2019: Elizabeth Acevedo, Poet X (The Poet X) 2018: Geraldine McCaughrean, Alla fine del mondo (Where the World Ends) 2017: Ruta Sepetys, Ci proteggerà la neve (Salt to the Sea) 2016: Sarah Crossan, One (One) 2015: Tanya Landman, Buffalo Soldier 2014: Kevin Brooks, Bunker Diary (The Bunker diary) 2013: Sally Gardner, Il pianeta di Standish (Maggot Moon) 2012: Patrick Ness, Sette minuti dopo la mezzanotte (A Monster Calls) 2011: Patrick Ness, Chaos. La guerra (Monsters of Men) 2010: Neil Gaiman, Il figlio del cimitero (The Graveyard Book) 2009: Siobhan Dowd, La bambina dimenticata dal tempo (Bog Child) 2008: Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur 2007: Meg Rosoff, Justin (Just in Case) 2005: Mal Peet, Tamar 2004: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions 2003: Jennifer Donnelly, Una voce dal lago (A Gathering Light) 2002: Sharon Creech, La valle dei rubini (Ruby Holler) 2001: Terry Pratchett, Il prodigioso Maurice e i suoi geniali roditori (The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents) 2000: Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth 1999: Aidan Chambers, Cartoline dalla terra di nessuno (Postcards from No Man's Land) 1998: David Almond, Skellig (Skellig) 1997: Tim Bowler, Il ragazzo del fiume (River Boy) 1996: Melvin Burgess, Junk. Storia d'amore e perdizione (Junk) 1995: Philip Pullman, La bussola d'oro (Northern Lights) 1994: Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard 1993: Robert Swindells, Stone Cold 1992: Anne Fine, Bambini di farina (Flour Babies) 1991: Berlie Doherty, Caro nessuno (Dear Nobody) 1990: Gillian Cross, Al lupo! (Wolf) 1989: Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes 1988: Geraldine McCaughrean, Un mucchio di bugie (A Pack of Lies) 1987: Susan Price, The Ghost Drum 1986: Berlie Doherty, Granny Was a Buffer Girl 1985: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm 1984: Margaret Mahy, The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance 1983: Jan Mark, Handles 1982: Margaret Mahy, The Haunting 1981: Robert Westall, The Scarecrows 1980: Peter Dickinson, City of Gold 1979: Peter Dickinson, Tulku 1978: David Rees, The Exeter Blitz 1977: Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler 1976: Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings 1975: Robert Westall, Una macchina da guerra (The Machine Gunners) 1974: Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold 1973: Penelope Lively, Il fantasma di Thomas Kempe (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe) 1972: Richard Adams, La collina dei conigli (Watership Down) 1971: Ivan Southall, Josh 1970: Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen, illustrato da Charles Keeping, Il romanzo degli dei greci (The God Beneath the Sea) 1969: K. M. Peyton, The Edge of the Cloud 1968: Rosemary Harris, The Moon in the Cloud 1967: Alan Garner, The Owl Service 1966: Premio non assegnato - nessun'opera considerata meritevole 1965: Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force 1964: Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank 1963: Hester Burton, Time of Trial 1962: Pauline Clarke, The Twelve and the Genii 1961: Lucy M. Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe 1960: Dr Ian Wolfram Cornwall, The Making of Man 1959: Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers 1958: Philippa Pearce, Il giardino di Mezzanotte (Tom's Midnight Garden) 1957: William Mayne, A Grass Rope 1956: C. S. Lewis, L'ultima battaglia (The Last Battle) 1955: Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom 1954: Ronald Welch, Knight Crusader 1953: Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up 1952: Mary Norton, Sotto il pavimento (The Borrowers) 1951: Cynthia Harnett, The Wool-Pack 1950: Elfrida Vipont, The Lark on the Wing 1949: Agnes Allen, The Story of Your Home 1948: Richard Armstrong, Sea Change 1947: Walter de la Mare, Collected Stories for Children 1946: Elizabeth Goudge, Il cavallino bianco (The Little White Horse) 1945: Premio non assegnato - nessun'opera considerata meritevole 1944: Eric Linklater, Il vento sulla luna (The Wind on the Moon) 1943: Premio non assegnato - nessun'opera considerata meritevole 1942: 'B.B.', The Little Grey Men 1941: Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah 1940: Kitty Barne, Visitors from London 1939: Eleanor Doorly, The Radium Woman 1938: Noel Streatfeild, The Circus is Coming 1937: Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street 1936: Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
Candidati Nota: Dal 2007 l'anno si riferisce all'anno un cui la medaglia è stata assegnata, mentre per gli anni precedenti si considera l'anno di pubblicazione del libro.
2012 David Almond, My name in Mina, Hodder Lissa Evans, Small change for stuart, Doubleday Sonya Harnett, The midnight zoo, Walker Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, Andersen Andy Mulligan, Trash, David Fickling Annabel Pitcher, My mister lives on the mantelpiece, Walker Ruta Sepetys, Between shades of grey, Puffin 2011 Theresa Breslin, Prisoner of the Inquisition, Doubleday Geraldine McCaughrean, The Death-Defying Pepper Roux, Oxford Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men, Walker Meg Rosoff, The Bride’s Farewell, Puffin Marcus Sedgwick, White Crow, Orion Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows, Andersen Press 2010 Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains, Bloomsbury Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, Penguin Julie Hearn, Rowan the Strange, Oxford University Press Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer, Walker Terry Pratchett, Nation, Doubleday Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb, Scholastic Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver, Orion 2009 Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic, Macmillan Kevin Brooks, Black Rabbit Summer, Puffin Eoin Colfer, Airman. Nato per volare (Airman), Puffin Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child, David Fickling Books Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys, Definitions Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Walker Kate Thompson, Creature of the Night, Bodley Head 2008 Kevin Crossley-Holland, Gatty's Tale, Orion Linzi Glass, Ruby Red, Penguin Elizabeth Laird, Crusade, Macmillan Tanya Landman, Apache: Girl Warrior, Walker Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur, Scholastic Meg Rosoff, What I Was, Penguin Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park, HarperCollins 2007 Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead, The Chicken House Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry, David Ficking Books Anne Fine, The Road of Bones, Doubleday Ally Kennen, Beast, Marion Lloyd Books Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin Marcus Sedgwick, My Swordhand is Singing, Orion 2005 David Almond, Clay, Hodder Children's Books Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed, Macmillan Children's Books Jan Mark, Turbulence, Hodder Children's Books Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness, Oxford University Press Mal Peet, Tamar, Walker Books 2004 Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJ, Scholastic Children's Books Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts, Bloomsbury Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan Sharon Creech, Heartbeat, Bloomsbury Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan, Macmillan Philip Pullman, The Scarecrow and his Servant, Doubleday 2003 David Almond, The Fire Eaters, Hodder Children's Books Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury Mark Haddon, Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time), David Fickling Books Elizabeth Laird, The Garbage King, Macmillan Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful, Collins Linda Newbery, Sisterland, David Fickling Books 2002 Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig, The Chicken House Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury Children's Books Anne Fine, Up On Cloud Nine, Corgi Books Alan Gibbons, The Edge, Dolphin Paperbacks Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor, Macmillan Children's Books Linda Newbery, The Shell House, David Fickling Books Marcus Sedgwick, The Dark Horse, Dolphin Paperbacks 2001 Sharon Creech, Love that Dog, Bloomsbury Children's Books Peter Dickinson, The Ropemaker, Macmillan Children's Books Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea, Macmillan Children's Books Elizabeth Laird, Jake's Tower, Macmillan Children's Books Geraldine McCaughrean, The Kite Rider, Oxford University Press Geraldine McCaughrean, Stop the Train, Oxford University Press Terry Pratchett, Il prodigioso Maurice e i suoi geniali roditori (The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents), Doubleday 2000 David Almond, Heaven Eyes, Hodder Children's Books Melvin Burgess, The Ghost Behind the Wall, Andersen Press Sharon Creech, The Wanderer, Macmillan Children's Books Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy, Mammoth Adéle Geras, Troy, Scholastic David Fickling Books Alan Gibbons, Shadow of the Minotaur, Orion Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin Books Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Scholastic David Fickling Books 1999 David Almond, Kit's Wilderness, Hodder Children's Books Bernard Ashley, Little Soldier, Orchard Books Aidan Chambers, Cartoline dalla terra di nessuno (Postcards from No Man's Land), Bodley Head Children's Books Susan Cooper, King of Shadows, Bodley Head Children's Books Gillian Cross, Tightrope, Oxford University Press Jenny Nimmo, The Rinaldi Ring, Mammoth J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e il prigioniero di Azkaban (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Bloomsbury Children's Books Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum, Doubleday 1998 David Almond, Skellig Robert Cormier, Heroes Peter Dickinson, The Kin Chris d'Lacey, Fly, Cherokee, Fly Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake 1997 Malorie Blackman, Pig-heart Boy Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone Tim Bowler, Il ragazzo del fiume (River Boy) Geraldine McCaughrean, Forever X Philip Ridley, Scribbleboy J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) Theresa Tomlinson, Meet me by the Steel Men 1996 Melvin Burgess, Junk Michael Coleman, Weirdo's War Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch Elizabeth Laird, Secret Friends Terry Pratchett, J.M. e la bomba (Johnny and the Bomb) Philip Pullman, Clockwork Chloe Rayban, Love in Cyberia Jacqueline Wilson, Bad Girls 1995 Susan Gates, Raider Philip Pullman, La bussola d'oro (Northern Lights) Jacqueline Wilson, Double Act 1994 Lynne Reid Banks, Broken Bridge Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard Berlie Doherty, Willa and Old Miss Annie Lesley Howarth, Maphead Michael Morpurgo, Arthur, High King of Britain Jenny Nimmo, Griffin's Castle Robert Westall, A Time of Fire Jacqueline Wilson, The Bed and Breakfast Star 1993 Melvin Burgess, The Baby and Fly Pie Anne Merrick, Someone Came Knocking Jenny Nimmo, The Stone Mouse Robert Swindells, Stone Cold
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