He was knighted in 2019 for services to literature. In 2010 he published his controversial number-one bestseller The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. His other books for children and young adults include Clockwork, I Was a Rat!, and The New Cut Gang books Thunderbolt’s Waxwork and The Gas-Fitter’s Ball. His acclaimed fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials (Scholastic Books in the UK and Knopf in the US), comprising Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, has been published in thirty-nine languages, and even in graphic novel form (with the French publishers, Gallimard). He has won many awards for his children’s books, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and a CBE. The Ruby in the Smoke, the first of the Sally Lockhart quartet of Victorian thrillers, was published in 1985. He worked as a teacher for many years and his first children’s novel, Count Karlstein, came out in 1982. He was born in Norwich, England, in 1946 and grew up in Zimbabwe and Wales. The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume 2 Northern Lights La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume 1 His Dark Materials The Good Man Jesus and the. But that’s the story that wanted to be told.Philip Pullman is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, its companion trilogy The Book of Dust, and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
Yes, it is a darker book, I can’t deny that. “I’ve got older too, perhaps more cynical and closer to despair and all that sort of thing. “His Darker Materials, perhaps? I think that is true,” Pullman said. The new book is darker than the stories that came before, and the language more adult: there is swearing, including use of the f-word. The second book will skip forward to Lyra as a 20-year-old undergraduate. It is set 10 years earlier and revisits the heroine, Lyra, as a baby. La Belle Sauvage is the start of another trilogy, called The Book of Dust. His Dark Materials - the trilogy of Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000) - sold 18 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Pullman was speaking at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, where he launched his new novel. Authors’ royalties are a cut of the sale price, not the price printed on the back cover.Ī report last year found that the average income for a writer in the UK is £12,500, well below the minimum wage.
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