 For the UALR English Department, this is Jay Bradley Minnick with facts about fiction. If you're going to kill the libraries, you're going to kill the readers. Have you thought about that? In the final act of someone who had spent so much of her life working on behalf of others, author and human rights activist Siobhan Dowd was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in Literature in 2009 for her book Bogchild.