David Almond
Forfatter af Skellig
Om forfatteren
David Almond was born on May 15, 1951 in the United Kingdom. He writes novels for children and young adults including The Savage, Slog's Dad, My Name Is Mina, The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas, and The Tightrope Walkers. He has received numerous awards including the Carnegie Medal for Skellig, two vis mere Whitbread Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award for young-adult books for Kit's Wilderness, the Smarties Prize and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award for The Fire-Eaters, the 2015 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for A Song for Ella Grey, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Serier
Værker af David Almond
The Middle of the World (in Pretext - MAGRS) 1 eksemplar
Nautilus' Traum 1 eksemplar
Mein Name ist Mina (German Edition) 1 eksemplar
El nuevo de la clase 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1953) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 3,387 eksemplarer
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War (2015) — Bidragyder — 107 eksemplarer
Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical (2009) — Bidragyder — 59 eksemplarer
So, What Kept You?: New Stories inspired by Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver (2006) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1951-05-15
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK (birth)
Humshaugh, Northumberland, England, UK - Uddannelse
- University of East Anglia (English and American Literature)
St Joseph's Grammar Technical School - Erhverv
- author
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (2010)
Eleanor Farjeon Award (2013)
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Lister
Five star books (4)
Ghosts (1)
Magic Realism (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Boy Protagonists (1)
Bildungsromans (1)
Mythology (1)
Rising water (1)
Hæderspriser
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 53
- Also by
- 8
- Medlemmer
- 9,654
- Popularitet
- #2,476
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 581
- ISBN
- 575
- Sprog
- 22
- Udvalgt
- 17