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![]() He spent part of his childhood in Australia, where he first met the wonders of comics, and grew to love Superman and Batman in particular.įrom the age of 11, he lived in North Wales, having moved back to Britain. The early part of his life was spent travelling all over the world, because his father and then his stepfather were both in the Royal Air Force. Philip was born in Norwich on 19th October 1946. He has published nearly 20 books in total, and when he’s not writing he likes to play the piano (badly), draw and make things out of wood. In 2007, The Golden Compass became a major Hollywood film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. ![]() In 2003, His Dark Materials came third in the BBC’s ‘Big Read’ competition to find the nation’s favourite book, and in 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s biggest prize for children’s literature. He is best known for the trilogy of books known as His Dark Materials, which won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Philip Pullman is probably the world’s most acclaimed living children’s author, whose bold, brilliant books have set new parameters for what children’s writing can say and do. ![]()
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