Peter Carter (13 August 1929 – 21 July 1999) was a British writer of children's books, primarily historical novels.
[citation needed] He left school at 14 and later took evening classes in art and philosophy, before entering Wadham College, Oxford at age 30.
[1] He later married Gudrun Willege, a German photographer[2] —or Ulrike Willige[1]— and moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 1976.
For Under Goliath (Oxford, 1977) he was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.
[3][a] He won Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Sentinels,[4] published by Oxford University Press in 1981.