Philip Pullman

Author

English author

1946 -

movement: atheism
genre: fantasy
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
educated at: Exeter College
occupation: writer, novelist, university teacher, playwright, librarian, children's writer, executive producer
award received: Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Eleanor Farjeon Award, Carnegie Medal, Nestlé Children's Book Prize, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
influenced by: Heinrich von Kleist, William Blake, John Milton, C. S. Lewis
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Sir Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL, is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture.The first book of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Northern Lights, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel, composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. It won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" in June 2007. It was adapted as a film under the book's US title, The Golden Compass.
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