In 1971 he was a member of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival . Aldridge won a Lenin Peace Prize in 1972 for " his outstanding struggle for the preservation of peace " . That year he also won the Gold Medal for Journalism from the Organisation for International Journalists . He has also won the World Peace Council Gold Medal . For '' The True Story of Spit Macphee '' ( Viking , 1986 ) he won the annual Guardian Children 's Fiction Prize , a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children 's writers
7th Moscow International Film Festival
7th Moscow International Film Festival
James Aldridge