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British children's author and journalist

Annalena McAfee (born c)^[1] Annalena is a British children's author and journalist.

Biography

In she served as a judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK's largest annual literary award. She has also been on the panel for The South Bank Show arts awards, the Ben Pimlott Prize for political writing (), The Guardian/Penguin photography competition for cover art (), the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction, and other awards.

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Literary festivals where she has spoken include Prague () and Hay-on-Wye (). In she served as a judge for the Orwell Prize (for political writing).

McAfee was the editor of The Guardian's review supplement, the Guardian Review, from until July , when she resigned to pursue a writing career. Before working for The Guardian she was a literary journalist at the Financial Times and theatre critic on the Evening Standard.

She has written a number of children's books, some McAfee, Annalena - Royal Society of Literature WERIH