Biographie de Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but has spent most of her life in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first novel when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths' exercice books as she grew up. She started work at a publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which was named after her) before turning to writing fiction full-time.
Since 1990 Jacqueline has written prolifically for children and has won many of the top awards for children's books, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and the Children's Book of the Year. Jacqueline was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2002. She is the most borrowed author of all from British libraries and an astounding twenty million copies of her books have now been sold in the UK.
An avid reader herself, Jacqueline has a personal collection of many, many thousands of books. She has one grown-up daughter.
Nick Sharratt knew from an early age that he wanted to use his artistic skills in his career. He went to Manchester Polytechnic to do an Art Foundation course, followed by a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design at St Martin's School of Art in London. Since graduating in 1984, Nick has been working full-time as an illustrator, with his work hugely in demand for children's books.
His famous collaboration with Jacqueline Wilson began with The Story of Tracy Beaker, published in 1991 and he has illustrated every one of her best-selling books published by Doubleday/Corgi since then. Nick also illustrates full-colour picture books, such as Eat Your Peas (Bodley Head), written by Kes Gray, which won the 2000 Children's Book Award and Pants (David Fickling Books), written by Giles Andreae, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 2003.
He also writes his own picture books. Nick lives in Brighton, Sussex.
