![]() Ditto is escaping the confines of everyday life in his family, at the same time gaining first experiences in love with Helen. ![]() His novel ✻reaktime« (1978) initiated his award-winning ✽ance«-sequence in which every novel tells an independent story of contemporary youth. After initially writing for teenage reluctant readers, he turned to young adults in 1975: »I found the audience that I wanted to talk to – myself at the age of sixteen-and-a-half.« After every encounter with adolescents, he discovered anew that their language and their emotions were not adequately represented in books: »Like all ›suppressed‹ people, they need their own literature to liberate themselves.« ![]() Chambers left his order in 1967 and has lived in Gloucestershire since then, working as a freelance writer. In the following years, he published his first texts and established himself as renowned teacher and librarian. Before entering an Anglican monastery in 1960 and while he was a monk, he worked as a teacher. ![]() Aidan Chambers, one of the most important authors in contemporary English fiction for young adults, was born in 1934 in Chester-le-Street in the north east of England. ![]()
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