Gillian Cross
Gillian Cross
Gillian Crossis 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
exploring wonderful
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.
Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.
great
I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.
The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.
chance fantastic
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.
author exploring issue
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.
healthier
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.
exploring helps people social understand
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.