فرانسيسكا ج ايوارت

Franzeska G Ewart is a children’s author originally from Stranraer. She studied medicine at Glasgow University, but switched courses and graduated with a degree in Zoology. She then studied teaching, and worked as a primary school teacher in Glasgow. Ewart has also spent some time in Pakistan, teaching at Karachi Grammar School. She often uses shadow puppetry to help children express themselves, and has written several books on shadow puppets. Franzeska Ewart’s first novel was Columbine, published in 1995, and since then she has written over 20 novels for children. Her most recent novels include Fire Mask – written with the help of Midlothian school children – and There’s a Hamster in my Pocket, published in 2011. Ewart says that she always draws the characters in her books before writing the novel. Franzeska Ewart now lives in Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire with her partner, also a writer, and her cats. In 2009 she became the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow in the University of the West of Scotland’s Ayr campus