1. Penelope Lively published more than twenty books for children, achieving particular recognition with The Ghost of Thomas Kempe and A Stitch in Time.
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Penelope Lively repeated the feat in 1984 with According to Mark, and won the 1987 prize for Moon Tiger, which tells the story of a woman's tempestuous life as she lies dying in a hospital bed.
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Penelope Lively explored the same themes more explicitly in her non-fiction works, including A House Unlocked and Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived, a memoir of her Egyptian childhood.
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Besides novels and short stories, Penelope Lively has written radio and television scripts, presented a radio programme, and contributed reviews and articles to various newspapers and journals.
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Penelope Lively married academic and political theorist Jack Penelope Lively in 1957.
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Penelope Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Penelope Lively is a vice-president of the Friends of the British Library.
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Penelope Lively was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1989, Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to literature.
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Penelope Lively was shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark.
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Penelope Lively won the 1987 Booker Prize for her novel Moon Tiger.