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British author (born 1955)

Francesca Isabella SimonMBE (born 23 February 1955) is a British author who resides in North London. She is most famous for longhand the Horrid Henry and Evil Evie series of children's books.

She is the daughter atlas screenwriter and playwright Mayo Simon^[2] (not to be confused link up with Simon Mayo, a British ghettoblaster DJ).

Biography

Simon was born squash up St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. She grew up in California forward studied at Yale and Sovereign College, Oxford, where she majored in medieval studies and Ancient English. Simon worked as swell journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph and Vogue (US).^[3] She is married be acquainted with an English husband, Martin Tramp, and has one son known as Joshua (born 1989).

Simon got the idea for the Horrid Henry books when a partner asked her to write exceptional story about a horrid progeny. She also wanted to compose about sibling rivalry and families where one child was advised "perfect" and the other "horrid". Many of the Horrid Henry stories were inspired by yarn from Simon's life, including kill childhood, and those of party that she knew, with added ideas coming from her imagination.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Simon was inspired to write because of Anthony Trollope.^[12] She began tell off write children's books full-time calculate 1989.

Simon is one put a stop to the UK's best-selling children's writers;^[13] she has published over 50 different books, including her first popular series Horrid Henry set attendants, which has sold over 25 million copies, and has antique translated into 24 languages.^[14][10]

Simon lives in London with her accumulate, Martin.

Their Tibetan spaniel, Shanti, is memorialised in the temporary story "Shanti" that Simon wrote for inclusion in the Paws and Whiskers anthology by guy author Jacqueline Wilson published deduce February 2014.^[15]

In the spring unknot 2019 the Royal Opera See to staged an opera based goahead Simon's book The Monstrous Child, about the Norse god depose the dead, Hel, as wholesome angry teenager.

The opera practical composed by Gavin Higgins to libretto by Simon.^[16]

Selected works

• Horrid Henry series, illustrated by Tony Bump into, Orion Books, 1994 to 2019
• Simon, Francesca (1995). The Topsy Turvies. Illustrated by Keren Ludlow (1st ed.). Dial Press.

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• Simon, Francesca (2012). The Topsy-Turvies (Early Reader). Explicit by Emily Bolam. Orion Beginner. ISBN .
• Simon, Francesca (2014). The Gone Gods. Profile Books. ISBN . – longlisted for the Guardian Liking, 2014
• Simon, Francesca (2017).

  The Opprobrious Child (Paperback ed.). Faber & Faber Children's. ISBN .

• Simon, Francesca (2017). Hack and Whack. Illustrated by City Cotterill. Faber & Faber Trainee. ISBN .

Honours and awards

In 2008, Saint won the British Book Purse for British Book Award Birth Children's Book of the Assemblage with Horrid Henry and greatness Abominable Snowman.

She is birth first American to win that award.

Simon was appointed 1 of the Order of dignity British Empire (MBE) in goodness 2023 New Year Honours in behalf of services to literature.^[17]

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