Michael Morpurgo

· Born: 5th October 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England (UK)

· Schools: London, Sussex, Canterbury, Devon, Kent

· College: Kings College London

· University: London University

· Studied: English and French

· Michael Morpurgo stepped into the teaching profession and a job in a Primary school in Kent and there he discovered what he wished to do

· Michael married Clare and had three children, one girl, two boys: Sebastian, Horatio, Rosalind

· Clare is the eldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, the founder of pigeon books

· Michael’s illustrators: Quentin Blake, Christian Birmingham, Emma Chichester Clark, Michael Foreman, Shoo Rayner, Tony Ross and Sarah Young

· Michael’s awards: 1991 Carnegie Medal: Waiting for Anya, 1995 Carnegie Medal: Arthur, High King of Britain, 1996 Carnegie Medal: The Wreck of the Zanzibar, 2002 W. H. Smith Award for Children's Literature: Out of the Ashes, 2003 Blue Peter Book Award: The Book I Couldn't Put Down: Cool!, 2003 Carnegie Medal: Private Peaceful, 2004 Whitbread Children's Book Award: Private Peaceful, 2012, Bippo award for books, Bippo, 2010 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German youth literature prize): Warten auf Anya (Waiting for Anya), 1993 Prix Sorcières (France): King of the Cloud Forests, 1995 Whitbread Children's Book Award: The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and much much more awards.

 His books: It Never Rained: Five Stories (1974), Living Poets (compiler with Clifford Simmons) (1974), Long Way from Home (1975), Thatcher Jones (1975), The Story-Teller (compiler with Graham Barrett) (1976), Friend or Foe (1977), Do All You Dare (1978), What Shall We Do with It? (1978), All Around the Year (with Ted Hughes) (1979), Love at First Sight (1979), IwowThat's How (1979), The Day I Took the Bull By the Horn (1979), The Ghost-Fish (1979), and much much more books