Stephen Elboz (born 1956) is the writer of the children's books ''The Byzantium Bazaar'' and ''A Land without Magic.''
Background
Born in 1956 in
Wellingborough
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,
Northants
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, England, where he still lives, Elboz wrote his first novel in secret at his
junior school
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in Wellingborough.
Encouragement from teachers made him continue to write, although he only left school with only a single
O-Level
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in
technical drawing
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Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in industry and engineering ...
. Later educated at
Lancaster University, he won a writing competition and had a play produced on the local radio station.
Elboz was awarded the
Smarties Young Judges' Prize for his first published novel, ''The House of Rats.''
Books
* ''The House of Rats'' (1991)
* ''The Games Board Map'' (1993)
* ''Bottle Boy'' (1994)
* ''The Byzantium Bazaar'' (1996)
* ''Ghostlands'' (1996)
* ''Temmi and the Flying Bears'' (1998)
* ''The Tower at Moonville'' (1999)
* ''A Handful of Magic'' (2000)
* ''A Land Without Magic'' (2001)
* ''A Wild Kind of Magic'' (2001)
* ''Temmi and the Frost Dragon'' (2002)
* ''An Ocean of Magic'' (2003)
References
External links
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Living people
People from Wellingborough
Alumni of Lancaster University
English children's writers
1956 births
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