David Almond
Autor(a) de Skellig
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por David Almond
The Middle of the World (in Pretext - MAGRS) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1953) — Introdução, algumas edições — 3,343 exemplares
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War (2015) — Contribuidor — 106 exemplares
Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical (2009) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
So, What Kept You?: New Stories inspired by Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver (2006) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1951-05-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK (birth)
Humshaugh, Northumberland, England, UK - Educação
- University of East Anglia (English and American Literature)
St Joseph's Grammar Technical School - Ocupações
- author
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (2010)
Eleanor Farjeon Award (2013)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Five star books (4)
Ghosts (1)
Magic Realism (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Boy Protagonists (1)
Bildungsromans (1)
Mythology (1)
Rising water (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 51
- Also by
- 8
- Membros
- 9,557
- Popularidade
- #2,518
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 580
- ISBN
- 574
- Línguas
- 22
- Marcado como favorito
- 17