• • Notable awards Carnegie Medal 1995 1996 2005 Website Philip Pullman, (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several books, including the trilogy and the fictionalised biography of,. In 2008, named Pullman one of the '50 greatest British writers since 1945'. In a 2004 poll for the, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in. The first book of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy,, won the 1995 from the, recognising the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel, composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. It won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time ' in June 2007.

His Dark Materials Book One THE GOLDEN COMPASS PHILIP PULLMAN. Catching what little light there was, and the long benches were pulled out ready for the guests. His Dark Materials Series, Book 1. His Dark Materials. A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the first book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1 eBook. Pullman is a master at combining impeccable characterizations and seamless plotting. Northern Lights.

It was under its US title,. Main article: His Dark Materials is a trilogy consisting of (titled in North America), and. Northern Lights won the for children's fiction in the UK in 1995.

The Amber Spyglass was awarded both 2001 for best children's book and the prize in January 2002, the first children's book to receive that award. The series won popular acclaim in late 2003, taking third place in the 's poll. Pullman later wrote two companion pieces to the trilogy, entitled and. A third companion piece Pullman refers to as the 'green book' will expand upon his character Will. Was published in October 2017 and is the beginning of a separate trilogy which will include characters and events from. Pullman has narrated unabridged audiobooks of the three main novels in His Dark Materials, the other parts are read by actors, including,,, and. In a discussion on fantasy as escapism, Pullman admitted he never reads fantasy as 'it's not satisfying'.

He then went on to argue that he sees His Dark Materials as 'stark realism', not fantasy. Public campaigns [ ] Pullman has been a vocal campaigner on a number of book-related and political issues. Age and gender labelling of books [ ] In 2008, Pullman led a campaign against the introduction of age bands on the covers of children's books, saying: 'It's based on a one-dimensional view of growth, which regards growing older as moving along a line like a monkey climbing a stick: now you're seven, so you read these books; and now you're nine so you read these'. More than 1,200 authors, booksellers, illustrators, librarians and teachers joined the campaign; Pullman's own publisher,, agreed to his request not to put the age bands on his book covers. Joel Rickett, deputy editor of, said: 'The steps taken by Mr Pullman and other authors have taken the industry by surprise and I think these proposals are now in the balance'. In 2014, Pullman supported the campaign to stop children's books being labelled as 'for girls' or 'for boys', saying: 'I'm against anything, from age-ranging to pinking and blueing, whose effect is to shut the door in the face of children who might enjoy coming in. No publisher should announce on the cover of any book the sort of readers the book would prefer.

Let the readers decide for themselves'. Civil liberties [ ] Pullman has a strong commitment to traditional British civil liberties and is noted for his criticism of growing state authority and government encroachment into everyday life.

In February 2009, he was the keynote speaker at the Convention on Modern Liberty in London and wrote an extended piece in The Times condemning the Labour government for its attacks on basic civil rights. Later, he and other authors threatened to stop visiting schools in protest at new laws requiring them to be vetted to work with youngsters—though officials claimed that the laws had been misinterpreted.

Public jury [ ] In July 2011, Pullman was one of the lead campaigners signing a declaration which called for a 1,000-strong 'public jury', selected at random, to draw up a 'public interest first' test to ensure that power is taken away from 'remote interest groups'. The declaration was also signed by 56 academics, writers, trade unionists and politicians from the, the and the. Library closures [ ] In October 2011, Pullman backed a campaign to stop 600 library closures in England calling it a 'war against stupidity'. Download Nissan Data Scan Crackle on this page. Of the ’s claims that it was closing half of its libraries to fulfil its 'exciting plans’ to improve its library service Pullman said: 'All the time, you see, the council had been longing to improve the library service, and the only thing standing in the way was – the libraries”.