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en-wikipedia-org-7156		Lloyd Alexander - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6754	800	73	Over his seven-decade career, Alexander wrote 48 books, and his work has been translated into 20 languages.[1] His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain, a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion, The High King, was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature.[2] He won U.S. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982.[3][4] The second volume (The Black Cauldron) was a runner-up for the 1966 Newbery Medal; the fourth (Taran Wanderer) was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; the fifth and concluding volume (The High King) won the 1969 Newbery.[81] Alexander was included in the 1972 third volume of the HW Wilson reference series, Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators[48]—early in his career as a children's writer, but after Prydain was complete.[82] For his contribution as a children's writer, Alexander was U.S. nominee in 1996 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.[83][84] Many of Alexander's later books received awards The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian won the 1971 National Book Award in category Children's Books[3] and in 1982 Westmark also won a National Book Award.[4][b]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7156.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7156.txt