Jacqueline Wilson, born Jacqueline Aitken is a British author of children's books. Her books have topped the bestsellers list in Britain and have won several prestigious awards. Many of her books have also been adapted for television and stage.
Born in Bath, Somerset in 1945, she initially started working in a Dundee-based publishing company, DC Thomson on a girl's magazine Jackie. According to a legend, the magazine was named after the author but this was denied outrightly by the once involved with the magazine.
About the style of her writing one can say that her books are typically realistic and take the British children and their problems as the focal point. From the death of a pet to divorce, and from homelessness to abuse, all pertinent problems faced by children in UK are picked up by her in books such as The Cat Mummy, The Suitcase Kid, The Bed and Breakfast Star and Secrets. Majority of the books written by Jacqueline Wilson are in first person narrative. Her books that have been adapted as television series include Girls in Love, Best Friends and The Story of Tracy Beaker.
This noted writer has published great bestsellers and has got many awards to her credit, including Smarties Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Her book The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award as well as 1999 Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Apart from that The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People's Choice Award. Her other noted achievements inlcude the conferring of Order of the British Empire for services to literacy in schools. Also, in 2007 her contribution to children's literature was recognised and she was awared an Honorary Doctorate by Roehampton University.
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