Ann Schlee

Ann Schlee FRSL was an English novelist. She won the annual Guardian [Children's Fiction Prize] for The Vandal, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.

Personal life and education

As a child, Schlee was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and brought up in the United States by her mother and grandparents until the end of the Second World War. Afterward, she settled in Cairo, Egypt with her parents. They later moved to Sudan and Eritrea. Later, she attended boarding school in England and studied at Somerville College, Oxford.
Schlee was married to artist Nick Schlee. They couple lived in Berkshire and had four children. She died on 1 November 2023, at the age of 89.

Schlee spent much of her writing career in London being quite active in the 1970s to the 1990s.

The Vandal is a science fiction novel set in the future. Beside winning the 1980 Guardian Prize it was a commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.
Rhine Journey was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize, recognising the year's best novel.

Schlee has written a number of books including: