Alan Gibbons
Alan Gibbons was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom on August 14th, 1953 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 70, Alan Gibbons biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Alan Albert Gibbons (born 14 August 1953) is an English writer of children's books who has won a Blue Peter Book Award.
He lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school.
His father was a farm labourer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old.
The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire.
He began to write for his pupils as a teacher, but never tried to get any of his work published.Gibbons trained to be a teacher in his mid-thirties and starting writing short stories for his students.
Later, he began to write professionally.
Early life
Gibbons' father was a farm labourer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire. He became a socialist at the age of 14.
Political career
Gibbons is a Socialist and a member of the International Socialist Movement, a forerunner to the left-wing Socialist Workers Party in 1974. He became a full time organizer and served on the party's central committee for many years. He said he was "tirelessly committed" to these organisations and that he "gave a quarter of a century to the SWP." He speaks at the annual Marxist conference Marxism and continues to campaign for left-wing causes as well as more mainstream ones.
In 2010, Gibbons led the Authors Against the SATs Movement.
Gibbons joined the Labour Party in 2016 and became secretary of Liverpool Walton Constituency Labour Party (CLP), Labour's safest seat in the region, after being inspired by Jeremy Corbyn's 2015 leadership campaign. He served as Liverpool councillor for the Warbreck Ward in the north of the city in 2021. He is a founder of the National Coordinating Group, Momentum's top body. Gibbons was briefly barred from the Labour Party in 2020 after receiving a motion in favour of Corbyn at a CLP meeting.
Gibbons was one of seven Labour councillors who broke the whip and voted against the party's budget for the Liverpool council in March 2022. "Liverpool's families are at breaking point," Gibbons said. I'm not going to vote for cuts that will make life miserable for the people I represent.
Gibbons was barred from the Labour Party in April 2022 because he had previously supported the left-wing Socialist Appeal group, which was later outlawed by the Labour Party.
Career as a writer
Gibbons trained to be a tutor in his mid-thirties and began writing short stories for his students. He began to write professionally later on. In 2000, he received the Blue Peter Book Award in the category "The Book I Couldn't Put Down" category for Shadow of the Minotaur. He served as a judge on the 2001 Blue Peter Book Awards. In 2001 and 2003, he was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal twice, and he was shortlisted twice for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He has also been named in the Leicester Book of the Year, the Stockport Book Award, the Angus Book Award, the Birmingham Chills Award, the Salford Young Adult Book Award, the Wesley Short Novel Award, the Salford Librarians' Special Award, and the Salford Librarians' Special Award. The Fred and Anne Jarvis Award was given by the NUT to Gibbons in 2016. He is a member of the Arts Council/UK Literacy Association Writers in Schools initiative.
Gibbons' books, according to Michael Rosen of The Socialist Review, are mainly concerned with "working class children and teens." His books are fast-moving, and they often include scenes in which the protagonists make "personal socioeconomic and political choices."
He has appeared at the Edinburgh Book Festival, the London Book Fair, the Northern Children's Book Festival, the Hay on Wye Literary Festival, the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and others. His work is published in nineteen languages, and he visits many schools around the world, including Kenya and Kuwait. He has appeared on BBC television, Radio 4, and Radio 5 live, as well as elsewhere in the Times Educational Supplement, Junior Education, Carousel, Books For Keeps, and other newspapers.
Gibbons is also an educational consultant and speaks at schools in the United Kingdom and abroad.
At the Abingdon Joint School's Evening in February 2013, he talked about forthcoming books, including 'Reserving Fire' (to be published on March 7th) and a new one titled 'Hate Crime,' which has been renamed Hate.' Sophie Lancaster's true-life murder is portrayed in a novel. The novel was released in March 2014 and covered by BBC and ITV, Radio City, The Sunday Express, the Telegraph, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, and the Manchester Evening News.