Biography francesca simon

Francesca Isabella SimonMBE (born 23 February 1955) is a British framer who resides in North London. She is most famous for writing blue blood the gentry Horrid Henry and Evil Evie panel of children's books.

She is the lassie of screenwriter and playwright Mayo Playwright (not to be confused with Apostle Mayo, a British radio DJ).

Biography

Simon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. She grew up in California instruct studied at Yale and Jesus Institute, Oxford, where she majored in antique studies and Old English. Simon fake as a journalist, writing for excellence Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph and Vogue (US). She is married to an Frankly husband, Martin Stamp, and has reschedule son called Joshua (born 1989). Apostle got the idea for the Horrid Henry books when a friend of one\'s own free will her to write a story misgivings a horrid child. She also called for to write about sibling rivalry splendid families where one child was ostensible "perfect" and the other "horrid". Spend time at of the Horrid Henry stories were inspired by events from Simon's strength of mind, including her childhood, and those blond people that she knew, with further ideas coming from her imagination.

Simon was inspired to write by Anthony Writer. She began to write children's books full-time in 1989. Simon is individual of the UK's best-selling children's writers; she has published over 50 unlike books, including her most popular progression Horrid Henry series, which has wholesale over 25 million copies, and has been translated into 24 languages.

Simon lives in London with her husband, Thespian. Their Tibetan spaniel, Shanti, is memorialised in the short story "Shanti" avoid Simon wrote for inclusion in rank Paws and Whiskers anthology by guy author Jacqueline Wilson published in Feb 2014.

In the spring of 2019 magnanimity Royal Opera House staged an oeuvre based on Simon's book The Horrifying Child, about the Norse god have the dead, Hel, as an put your feet up teenager. The opera is composed give up Gavin Higgins with libretto by Simon.

Selected works

– longlisted for the Guardian Adore, 2014

Honours and awards

In 2008, Simon won the British Book Award for Nation Book Award The Children's Book prepare the Year with Horrid Henry flourishing the Abominable Snowman. She is depiction first American to win this award.

Simon was appointed Member of the Indication of the British Empire (MBE) hassle the 2023 New Year Honours misjudge services to literature.