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        1. Robert E. Swindells (born 20 March ) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction.
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        3. Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper.
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          Robert E. Swindells (born 20 March ) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction.

          For the young-adult novel Stone Cold (Heinemann, ), which deals with homelessness, he won the annual Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, recognizing the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.

          Biography

          Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a Primary school teacher.

          While in training he wrote his first novel, When Darkness Comes, which was published by Brockhampton Press of Stenhousemuir in He combined writing with teaching until when he took up writing full-time. He was still writing as of his 71st birthday (20 March ).

          He first won the Red House Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land (), a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world.

          Swindells was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and i