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Alan Garner (natural Congleton October 17, 1934) is a British writer whose themes & language come strongly influenced by his birth & upbringing inside Alderley Edge Cheshire. His super early writing was primarily for children and could be described when fantasy, though he himself rejects a label of "children's writer": His extra recent function is non aimed at youngsters (Strandloper, Thursbitch), spell a sooner The Stone Book Quartet (which received the Phoenix Award in 1996) is poetic in style & inspiration. His virtually all recent novel is Thursbitch. More works use won a Protector Award, a Carnegie Medal,and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, likewise when a Chicago International Film Festival First Prize for his training film "Images." His collection of essays & public talks, The Voice That Thunders, contains much autobiographical poop. His writing is the subject of Neil Philip's A Fine Anger, (Collins, 1981), which offers a socio-linguistic analysis of his act. Philip Pullman is a strong admirer, & The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is an acknowledged classic of children's literature. He was awarded a OBE for services to literature in the 2001 New Year's Honours list.
Works His better known works come:
He has as well edited the collection of stories just about fools, A Guizer (1975).
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Alan Garner Provides biography, bibliography, criticism, and links to other sites about the British writer. Interview with Alan Garner From Raymond H. Thompson's "Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature". |
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