Mark Haddon
Autor(a) de The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
About the Author
Author and screenwriter Mark Haddon was born in Northampton, U.K. in 1962. He received a B.A. in English from Merton College and a MSc in English Literature from Edinburgh University. Since 1996, he has worked on numerous television projects. He has won two BAFTAs and The Royal Television Society mostrar mais Best Children's Drama for Microsoap, which he created and wrote 12 out of 25 episodes. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaption of Fungus the Bogeyman. He has written fifteen children's books including the Agent Z series. In 1994, he was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize for The Real Porky Philips. He won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which provides a realistic insight into what it is like to have autism. He currently lives in Oxford with his family. He was runner-up for the BBC National Short Story Award with his title 'Bunny'. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Mark Haddon
Six Shorts - The finalists for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award (2013) 6 exemplares
The Weir 2 exemplares
Making Summer Reading Fun 1 exemplar
2004 1 exemplar
SOS Title Unknown 1 exemplar
La kurioza incidento de la hundo en la nokto 1 exemplar
The Distance 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
New Beginnings: New Writing from Bestselling Authors Sold in Aid of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Earthquake Charities (2005) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Book: The King of Torts / Days Without Numbers / The Last Detective / The Curious Incident of… (2016) 5 exemplares
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Last Juror | The Various Haunts of Men | The Codex | The Curious Incident of the… (2004) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Kirjavaliot - Pahaa paossa, Siskoni mun, Murhaajan käsikirja, Yöllisen koiran merkillinen tapaus (2004) — Autor — 1 exemplar
De wreker; Vluchten met Pete; De zaak Myrtion; Het wonderbaarlijke geval met de hond in de nacht 1 exemplar
The National Theatre Production: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time [programme] (2018) — Autor — 1 exemplar
5 Books! 1) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 2) I Capture the Castle 3) The Glass Castle 4) The Devil… (2001) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
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- Nome canónico
- Haddon, Mark
- Data de nascimento
- 1962-09-26
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- GB
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Northampton, Northamptonshire, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Locais de residência
- Northampton, Northamptonshire, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
Oxford, Oxfordshire, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië - Educação
- University of Oxford (Merton College)
Uppingham School - Ocupações
- author
illustrator
screenwriter
creative writing teacher (Avron Foundation)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 41
- Also by
- 16
- Membros
- 53,320
- Popularidade
- #283
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 1,705
- ISBN
- 431
- Línguas
- 26
- Marcado como favorito
- 52
Kirkus: Britisher Haddon debuts in the adult novel with the bittersweet tale of a 15-year-old autistic who’s also a math genius.
Christopher Boone has had some bad knocks: his mother has died (well, she went to the hospital and never came back), and soon after he found a neighbor’s dog on the front lawn, slain by a garden fork stuck through it. A teacher said that he should write something that he “would like to read himself”—and so he embarks on this book, a murder mystery that will reveal who killed Mrs. Shears’s dog. First off, though, is a night in jail for hitting the policeman who questions him about the dog (the cop made the mistake of grabbing the boy by the arm when he can’t stand to be touched—any more than he can stand the colors yellow or brown, or not knowing what’s going to happen next). Christopher’s father bails him out but forbids his doing any more “detecting” about the dog-murder. When Christopher disobeys (and writes about it in his book), a fight ensues and his father confiscates the book. In time, detective-Christopher finds it, along with certain other clues that reveal a very great deal indeed about his mother’s “death,” his father’s own part in it—and the murder of the dog. Calming himself by doing roots, cubes, prime numbers, and math problems in his head, Christopher runs away, braves a train-ride to London, and finds—his mother. How can this be? Read and see. Neither parent, if truth be told, is the least bit prepossessing or more than a cutout. Christopher, though, with pet rat Toby in his pocket and advanced “maths” in his head, is another matter indeed, and readers will cheer when, way precociously, he takes his A-level maths and does brilliantly.
A kind of Holden Caulfield who speaks bravely and winningly from inside the sorrows of autism: wonderful, simple, easy, moving, and likely to be a smash.… (mais)