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Philip Pullman


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Born (when/where): born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before his family settled in North Wales. He received my secondary education at the excellent Ysgol Ardudwy, Harlech, and then went to Exeter College, Oxford, to read English.

First novel: first children's book was Count Karlstein (1982, republished in 2002). That was followed by The Ruby in the Smoke (1986), the first in a quartet of books featuring the young Victorian adventurer, Sally Lockhart

Chronology of subsequent work:
also written a number of shorter stories which include The Firework-Maker's Daughter, I Was a Rat!, and Clockwork, or All Wound Up.
However, his greatest work is the trilogy His Dark Materials, beginning with Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the USA) in 1995, continuing with The Subtle Knife in 1997, and concluding with The Amber Spyglass in 2000. These books have been honoured by several prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Award, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the first time in the history of that prize that it was given to a children's book.

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Best known for: the His Dark Materials trilogy


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Who do you write for - children or adults? Myself. No-one else. If the story I write turns out to be the sort of thing that children enjoy reading, then well and good. But I don't write for children: I write books that children read. Some clever adults read them too.

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MadBooklover His Dark Materials 0 Jun 27 2007, 11:36 PM EDT by MadBooklover
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This trilogy may have been written for a young audience, but I loved them (and I'm in my 40's)! A friend gave me the paperbacks, and I couldn't put them down from the first chapter. I'm eagerly awaiting the follow up novels...as Pullman has intimated he has plans to continue the tales.
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