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Gillian Cross [1945-0] British
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Gillian Cross is a British author of children's books. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Great Elephant Chase.

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Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.
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Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.
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One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives. Chance
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The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.
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I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
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If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.
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Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.
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I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.
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