MP - Mal Peet Archive
Reference code
MP
Level of description
Collection
Title
Mal Peet Archive
Date/s
1992
1997-2024
1997-2024
Quantity & Format
8 boxes (one is oversize)
Personal name
Graham, Elspeth
Subject
Authors, English -- 21st century
Children's literature -- Authorship
Children's literature -- Authorship
Creator
Peet, Mal (1947-2015)Administrative/Biographical history
Mal Peet (1947-2015) was the Branford Boase Award-winning author of 'Keeper', its sequel 'The Penalty', and 'Tamar', which won the Carnegie Medal. He won the 2009 Guardian children's fiction prize for 'Exposure'. In 2012 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Fiction for 'Life: an Exploded Diagram'.Peet was schooled in Norfolk. Many of his children's picture books were written in collaboration with his wife Elspeth Graham. He published his first novel 'Keeper' at the age of 56. Peet disliked being defined by the age of his audience or restricted by genre (in particular YA, young adult). Instead, he liked to "attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.”
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The collection was deposited on loan (Storehouse model) to the British Archive for Contemporary Writing by Elspeth Graham in August 2024.
Scope and content
Contains manuscripts, proofs and editorial correspondence; published books; publicity and awards correspondence; ephemera; reviews; letters from children; and correspondence and ideas for screenplay adaptations.
The collection holds material from the novels Keeper (2003), Tamar (2006), and Life: an Exploded Diagram (2011). With regards to the picture books published collaboratively with Elspeth Graham, the most represented in this collection is Cloud Tea Monkeys.
The collection holds material from the novels Keeper (2003), Tamar (2006), and Life: an Exploded Diagram (2011). With regards to the picture books published collaboratively with Elspeth Graham, the most represented in this collection is Cloud Tea Monkeys.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright is owned by the Mal Peet Estate or third parties. It does not belong to UEA. All rights are reserved.
Copying of material is prohibited without permission of the copyright owner. Under UK copyright law, a small amount of copying, under fair dealing, is permitted for private research on completion of a copyright declaration form. The amount of copying must be checked by Archives staff. It is not permitted to publish or share this material without permission of the copyright holder.
Copying of material is prohibited without permission of the copyright owner. Under UK copyright law, a small amount of copying, under fair dealing, is permitted for private research on completion of a copyright declaration form. The amount of copying must be checked by Archives staff. It is not permitted to publish or share this material without permission of the copyright holder.