Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (born 17 March 1933) is an English writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize ("Moon Tiger", 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books ("The Ghost of Thomas Kempe", 1973).
Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a Vice-President of the Friends of the British Library.