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Gladys Pagendam - Biography

  

Liverpool-born writer of children's books, now living in Australia.

Gladys Pagendam was born in 1946 in Liverpool, England, one of six siblings. She began to write seriously in 1985, when she moved from England to Australia with her husband and two small children. Jacaranda Wiley published her first novel soon afterwards - Sit Beside the Gnomon - a time travel adventure for 9-10 year olds.

Gladys grew up as a teenager in Liverpool when The Beatles were rising to fame. Then she left Beatlemania behind to become a nun in Ireland, France, Belgium and England. She combined these two experiences in Compline (2012), a book about a nun and Beatle George Harrison.

Over the years she has developed her writing skills both by attending courses and by continuously practising her craft. she has been awarded a degree from Southern Cross University where she undertook two majors in creative writing. This gave her new ways of thinking about writing and enormous confidence, for she had matched herself against other excellent writers.

Other children's novels she has written are: Frizzy's Rainbow Maggo Ribbo B Bopp Goes Bim Bam Boom. She also likes to write picture books, short stories for adults, visual poetry, free verse stories, and articles for newsletters and magazines.

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