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Tim
Bowler was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the
setting of his first novel, Midget. On leaving school
he studied Swedish and Scandinavian Studies at East Anglia
University, and lived for a while in Sweden. He then worked
in a number of fields, including forestry and the timber
trade, and spent seven years as a teacher. By the time he
left teaching, Tim had become Head of Modern Languages at
a school in Newton Abbot, Devon. He is now a full-time freelance
writer and translator, and lives in Devon.
Tim
has won numerous awards for his novels: the prestigious
Carnegie Medal for his third book, River Boy, and
both the Angus Book Award and the Lancashire Libraries Children’s
Book Award for his fourth novel, Shadows. His fifth
novel, Storm Catchers, won this year’s South
Lanarkshire Book Award, and was reissued in July 2002, along
with Midget and Dragon’s Rock.
Tim's
latest novel, Starseeker,
is out now in hardback.
Profile
supplied by OUP - Last Updated September 2002
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