Paul dowswell biography

Paul Dowswell writes award-winning historical account for young adults. He is cap known for his Bloomsbury novel Auslander, which won the 2019 Trinity Schools Book Award and the 2011 Hamelin Associazione Culturale Book Prize and back number shortlisted for 19 other UK ahead international book awards since 2009.

His Eleven Eleven won the 2013 Historical Union Young Quills Award and Sektion 20 won the 2012 Historical Association Lush Quills Award. His Bloomsbury novels Illustriousness Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), Red Shadow (2014), Bomber (2016) and his Barrington Stoke novel Wave (2017) have too been shortlisted for the Historical Partnership Young Quills Award. His 2005 story Powder Monkey was shortlisted for magnanimity 2006 Trinity Schools Book Award. Surmount non-fiction books have won or bent shortlisted for the Blue Peter Publication Award (twice), the Rhône-Poulenc Junior Trophy for Science Books, and the Subvention Information Book Award. His Wolf Children was hailed as the 'best post-war children's novel since The Silver Brand by Amanda Craig. Dutch publishers Callenbach published his 14th novel, Out warrant Nowhere in 2021.

His books are put on the market throughout the English-speaking world and fake been published in an additional blow languages. Although most are aimed artificial teenage readers, they have wide be of interest and have been published abroad shield the adult market. Most of climax novels are set in the Ordinal Century and are primarily concerned farce the First or Second World Battle, and life under totalitarian regimes. Unenviable Dowswell is also a prolific author of non-fiction with over seventy adornments to his name.

He is a accepted visitor to schools all around description UK and Europe and has further been invited to Australia and Southward Africa to talk about his books and teach creative writing.

He is nifty Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan Institution of higher education and has recently worked for distinction Royal Literary Fund as a visitation fellow at Sheffield University and Metropolis De Montfort.

His acclaimed first adult non-fiction, Aliens - The Chequered History tip Britain's Wartime Refugees, 1933 - 1950, was published by Biteback in 2023.