Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Leila_Berg> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 74 of
74
with 100 items per page.
- Leila_Berg abstract "Leila Berg (12 November 1917 – 17 April 2012) was a British children's author, known also as a journalist and writer on education and children's rights. She began writing in a more realistic and gritty style, for younger children, in the 1960s, in the Nippers series of readers in an influential move designed to bring children's books closer to ordinary, real, urban life, and away from the Janet and John reader style. (And, probably, the comforts of Enid Blyton's world, a ubiquitous influence of the period.) She was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1973 for her work.She was brought up in Salford, Lancashire, in a Jewish doctor's family; she wrote vividly about this part of her life in Flickerbook (1997). There she describes also later meetings in Cambridge through her older brother, particularly with Margot Heinemann, and J. B. S. Haldane whom she would reference obliquely in the early Chunky books. She associated with Young Communist League members at the time of the Spanish Civil War (in which she lost two lovers) and eventually joined it. Her first job as a journalist was with the British communist daily paper The Daily Worker (later renamed The Morning Star).She was influenced in her thinking by psychologist Susan Isaacs. After working as a journalist in World War II, during which she married and started a family, she started to write children's fiction. She also took an interest in the progressive education movement of A. S. Neill, Michael Duane, head of Risinghill School, and John Holt. She became children's editor for the publisher Methuen. As she said, All my life I have sought to empower children (speech at honorary degree ceremony, University of Essex).Leila Berg died on 17 April 2012.".
- Leila_Berg activeYearsEndYear "1999".
- Leila_Berg activeYearsStartYear "1948".
- Leila_Berg award Eleanor_Farjeon_Award.
- Leila_Berg birthDate "1917".
- Leila_Berg birthDate "1917-11-12".
- Leila_Berg birthPlace City_of_Salford.
- Leila_Berg birthYear "1917".
- Leila_Berg deathDate "2012-04-17".
- Leila_Berg deathYear "2012".
- Leila_Berg occupation Author.
- Leila_Berg occupation Journalist.
- Leila_Berg occupation Leila_Berg__1.
- Leila_Berg viafId "99914717".
- Leila_Berg wikiPageExternalLink ~leilaberg.
- Leila_Berg wikiPageExternalLink biofromtgs.htm.
- Leila_Berg wikiPageExternalLink www.risinghill.co.uk.
- Leila_Berg wikiPageID "2926121".
- Leila_Berg wikiPageRevisionID "579795704".
- Leila_Berg awards "Eleanor Farjeon Award".
- Leila_Berg birthDate "1917-11-12".
- Leila_Berg birthPlace "Salford, England, UK".
- Leila_Berg caption "Leila Berg, aged 22 or 23".
- Leila_Berg dateOfBirth "1917".
- Leila_Berg dateOfDeath "2012-04-17".
- Leila_Berg deathDate "2012-04-17".
- Leila_Berg hasPhotoCollection Leila_Berg.
- Leila_Berg name "Berg, Leila".
- Leila_Berg name "Leila Berg".
- Leila_Berg occupation "Author, journalist, political activist".
- Leila_Berg shortDescription "British writer".
- Leila_Berg yearsActive "1948".
- Leila_Berg description "British writer".
- Leila_Berg description "British writer".
- Leila_Berg subject Category:1917_births.
- Leila_Berg subject Category:2012_deaths.
- Leila_Berg subject Category:British_Jews.
- Leila_Berg subject Category:British_children's_writers.
- Leila_Berg subject Category:People_from_Salford,_Greater_Manchester.
- Leila_Berg type BritishWriters.
- Leila_Berg type CausalAgent100007347.
- Leila_Berg type Communicator109610660.
- Leila_Berg type LivingThing100004258.
- Leila_Berg type Object100002684.
- Leila_Berg type Organism100004475.
- Leila_Berg type PeopleFromSalford,GreaterManchester.
- Leila_Berg type Person100007846.
- Leila_Berg type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Leila_Berg type Whole100003553.
- Leila_Berg type Writer110794014.
- Leila_Berg type YagoLegalActor.
- Leila_Berg type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Leila_Berg type Agent.
- Leila_Berg type Person.
- Leila_Berg type Person.
- Leila_Berg type Q215627.
- Leila_Berg type Q5.
- Leila_Berg type Agent.
- Leila_Berg type NaturalPerson.
- Leila_Berg type Thing.
- Leila_Berg type Person.
- Leila_Berg comment "Leila Berg (12 November 1917 – 17 April 2012) was a British children's author, known also as a journalist and writer on education and children's rights. She began writing in a more realistic and gritty style, for younger children, in the 1960s, in the Nippers series of readers in an influential move designed to bring children's books closer to ordinary, real, urban life, and away from the Janet and John reader style.".
- Leila_Berg label "Leila Berg".
- Leila_Berg sameAs m.08d2t6.
- Leila_Berg sameAs Q6519848.
- Leila_Berg sameAs Q6519848.
- Leila_Berg sameAs Leila_Berg.
- Leila_Berg wasDerivedFrom Leila_Berg?oldid=579795704.
- Leila_Berg givenName "Leila".
- Leila_Berg homepage ~leilaberg.
- Leila_Berg isPrimaryTopicOf Leila_Berg.
- Leila_Berg name "Berg, Leila".
- Leila_Berg name "Leila Berg".
- Leila_Berg surname "Berg".