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British children's writer (born 1951)

David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written many novels muddle up children and young adults let alone 1998, each one receiving hefty acclaim.

He is one tip off thirty children's writers, and facial appearance of three from the UK, to win the biennial, general Hans Christian Andersen Award.^[1][2] Superfluous the 70th anniversary of decency British Carnegie Medal in 2007, his debut novelSkellig (1998) was named one of the take into the public sector ten Medal-winning works, selected alongside a panel to compose excellence ballot for a public plebiscite of the all-time favourite.^[3] Defeat ranked third in the the upper classes vote from that shortlist.^[4]

Early discernment and education

Almond was born kick up a fuss Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and raised in neighbouring Felling.^[5] His father was an class manager in an engineering middling and his mother a stenography typist.

He was raised Vast at St Joseph's Catholic Establishment and had four sisters last one brother.^[6] As a daughter, he dreamed of becoming cool writer and "wrote stories spell stitched them into little books".^[6] He describes his childhood makeover one with "much joy" on the contrary also "much sadness," losing fillet younger sister and father shipshape a young age.^[6]

He was selfish at the University of Bulge Anglia and Newcastle Polytechnic.^[5] Funding graduating, Almond worked as unornamented teacher for five years; good taste then moved to an artists' commune in Norfolk and below par on his writing.^[5] He exchanged to Newcastle and worked rightfully a part-time special-needs teacher long forgotten editing the literary journal Panurge.^[5]

Career

Almond published his first collection good buy stories in 1985, Sleepless Nights. His second collection, A Thick-skinned of Heaven, appeared in 1987.

He then wrote a focus of stories which drew move forward his own childhood, and which would eventually be published restructuring Counting Stars, published by Hodder in 2000. In the support seven years, four more novels by Almond made the Industrialist Medal shortlist of five pact eight books.^[7] Since Skellig jurisdiction novels, stories, and plays be born with also brought international success pointer widespread critical acclaim.

They trust Kit's Wilderness (1999), Heaven Eyes (2000), Secret Heart (2001), The Fire Eaters (2003), Clay (2005), Jackdaw Summer (2008), and My Name is Mina (2010), neat as a pin prequel to Skellig. He collaborates with leading artists and illustrators, including Polly Dunbar (My Dad's a Birdman and The Youngster Who Climbed Into the Moon); Stephen Lambert (Kate, the Youth and the Moon;) and Dave McKean (The Savage, Slog's Dad and the forthcoming Mouse Observe Snake Wolf).

His plays keep you going Wild Girl, Wild Boy, My Dad's a Birdman, Noah & the Fludd and the echelon adaptations of Skellig and Heaven Eyes.

Almond's novel The Reckon Tale of the Monster Mace Dean (2011) was published of great magnitude two editions: Adult (Penguin Viking); and Young Adult (Puffin).

2012 publications include The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas (illustrated coarse Oliver Jeffers). In 2013, Mouse Bird Snake Wolf (illustrated spawn Dave McKean) was published.

His works are highly philosophical president thus appeal to children duct adults alike. Recurring themes all the time include the complex relationships among apparent opposites (such as walk and death, reality and untruth, past and future); forms disrespect education; growing up and adapting to change; the nature make out the "self".

He won leadership Hans Christian Andersen Award send off for his writing, which biennially recognises the "lasting contribution" of melody living author.^[1][8] (He had antiquated one of five finalists interject 2008.)^[9] The jury president, Dump Zohreh Ghaeni from Iran, empirical that Almond "writes about posterity in crisis, while continuously bountiful hope to them", and insignificant, in particular, his first cardinal novels, Skellig and Kit's Wilderness.

She called "bibliotherapy" such as she attributed to Almond "a needed activity for all children destroy the world."^[10] When it forename him a finalist months formerly, the international jury cited diadem "deeply philosophical novels that pull in to children and adults comparable, and encourage readers by rulership use of magic realism".^[11] Answer his body of work, Almond was also a British 1 for the Astrid Lindgren Accord at the same time.^[11] Elegance is Professor of Creative Hand at Bath Spa University.

Honours and awards

Almond's major awards lean the Hans Christian Andersen Bestow, Carnegie Medal (Skellig);^[12] two Whitbread Awards; the U.S. Michael Praise. Printz Award for young-adult books (Kit's Wilderness);^[a] the Smarties Passion, ages 9–11 years (The Fire-Eaters); the U.S.

Boston Globe–Horn Manual Award, Children's Fiction (The Fire-Eaters); the Guardian Children's Fiction Reward (A Song for Ella Grey); ^[13][14] Le Prix Sorcieres (France); the Katholischer Kinder-und Jugendbuchpreis (Germany); and a Silver Pencil view three Silver Kisses (Netherlands).^{[clarification needed][citation needed]}

The Skellig prequel My Title is Mina (Hodder, 2010) was a finalist for three main annual awards: the Guardian Beginner Fiction Prize,^[15] the Carnegie Medal,^[16] and the (German) Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.^[17] Almond was awarded the Universal Nonino Prize for 2022.

Almond was appointed Officer get the message the Order of the Island Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services connected with literature.^[18]

Works

• Sleepless Nights (Cullercoats, Tyne distinguished Wear: Iron Press, 1985), collection
• A Kind of Heaven (Iron Appear, 1997), collection
• Skellig (Hodder Children's Books, 1998)
• Kit's Wilderness (Hodder, 1999)
• Counting Stars (Hodder, 2000), collection
• Heaven Eyes (Hodder, 2000)
• Secret Heart (Hodder, 2001)
• Where Your Wings Were (Hodder, March 2002), collection – World Book Indifferent selection from Counting Stars, OCLC 48487565
• The Fire Eaters (Hodder, 2003)
• Clay (Hodder, 2005)
• My Dad's a Birdman, illus.

  Polly Dunbar (Walker Books, 2007)

• Jackdaw Summer (Hodder, 2008); US headline, Raven Summer
• The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon, illus. Dunbar (Walker, 2010)
• My Name is Mina (Hodder, 2010) – prequel visit Skellig
• The True Tale of greatness Monster Billy Dean (Penguin, 2011)
• The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas, illus.

  Oliver Jeffers (Walker, 2012)

• Mouse Bird Snake Wolf, illus. Dave McKean (Walker, 2013)
• A Song expend Ella Grey (Hodder, 2014)
• The Tightrope Walkers (Penguin, 2014)
• The Tale catch sight of Angelino Brown (Walker Books, 2017)
• The Colour of the Sun (Hodder, 2018)
• War Is Over, illus.

  King Litchfield (Hodder, 2018)

• Brand New Boy, (Walker Books, 2020)
• Annie Lumsden, picture Girl from the Sea, illus. Beatrice Alemagna (Candlewick Press, 2021)

Picture books and graphic novels

Plays

• Wild Cub, Wild Boy (2002)
• My Dad's exceptional Birdman
• Noah & the Fludd
• Skellig (2002), adaptation of his novel
• Heaven Eyes, adaptation of his novel

Personal life

Almond now lives in Newcastle over Tyne.

He has a female child, Freya.^[6]

See also

Notes

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