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2 unusual facts about Carnegie Medal


Carnegie Medal

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (inaug. 2012), two American awards for year's best books for adults

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video (inaug. 1991), an American award for the year's best video for children


Eleanor Doorly

For her biography of Marie Curie, The Radium Woman she won the 1939 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.

Sally Gardner

She won the Costa children's book award (2012) and the Carnegie Medal (2013) for her book Maggot Moon.

Skye Bennett

Bennett appeared as Mina in the film adaptation of David Almond's Carnegie Medal- and Whitbread Children's Award-winning book Skellig, which was released in the UK in 2009.


see also

Harold Thompson

Harold H. Thompson (born 1908), carpenter, recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Heroism