Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (née Low) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults, born on March 17, 1933, in Cairo, Egypt. She is the only person to have won both the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger (1987) and the Carnegie Medal for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973), and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012 for her contributions to literature[1][2][9].