Sylvia Waugh

Sylvia Waugh (born 1935) is a British writer of children's books.
Biography.
Sylvia Waugh was born in Gateshead, County Durham, Northern England and attended Gateshead Grammar School. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh began her writing career in her late fifties. Her first book, "The Mennyms", was published by Julia McRae in 1993 and won the annual "Guardian" Children's Fiction Prize. She continued "The Mennyms" as a cycle of five books (1993 to 1996) that have appeared in seventeen languages. The Ormingat books received good reviews and have been published in Japanese (all three books) and Spanish ("Space Race").
Selected works.
The Mennyms
Ormingat trilogy
Awards.
Beside winning the Guardian Prize, "The Mennyms" (book one) was recognised in other ways: