Mr Aidan Chambers
Doctor of Letters (HonDLitt)
Year conferred: 2011
Author Aidan Chambers is best known for a sequence of six youth novels, beginning with Breaktime in 1978. He is also a publisher, along with his wife Nancy, launching the Thimble Press in 1969. The couple received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for their outstanding contribution to children’s literature.
In 2010 he received an Award for Lifetime Services to English Education from the National Association for the Teaching of English. Aidan has written for stage, radio and television.
During the 1950s and 60s he taught English and Drama in secondary schools, seven of them while serving as an Anglican monk, and taught courses in reading and children’s literature at Westminster College for ten years from 1982. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
