Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novels, and a number of other books.

Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman signing a copy of Lyra's Oxford
Lahir	(1946-10-19) 19 Oktober 1946 Norwich, England
Pekerjaan	Novelist
Genre	Fantasy
Laman web
Philip-Pullman.com

Brief biography

Pullman was born in Norwich to RAF pilot Alfred Outram and Audrey Evelyn Merrifield. The family traveled with his father's job, including to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where he spent time at school. His father was killed in a plane crash in 1953 when Pullman was seven. His mother remarried and with a move to Australia came Pullman's discovery of comic books including Superman and Batman, a medium which he continues to espouse. From 1957 he was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy school in Harlech, Gwynedd and spent time in Norfolk with his grandfather, a clergyman. Around this time Pullman discovered John Milton's Paradise Lost, which would become a major influence for His Dark Materials.

From 1963 Pullman attended Exeter College, Oxford, receiving a Third class BA in 1968, in an interview with the Oxford Student he stated that "he did not really enjoy the English course" and that "I thought I was doing quite well until I came out with my third class degree and then I realised that I wasn’t — it was the year they stopped giving fourth class degrees otherwise I’d have got one of those". He discovered William Blake's illustrations around 1970, which would also later influence him greatly.

Pullman married Judith Speller in 1970 and began teaching children and writing school plays. His first published work was The Haunted Storm, which joint-won the New English Library's Young Writer's Award in 1972. He nevertheless refuses to discuss it. Galatea, an adult fantasy-fiction novel followed in 1978, but it was his school plays which inspired his first children's book, Count Karlstein in 1982. He stopped teaching around the publication of The Ruby in the Smoke (1986), his second children's book, whose Victorian setting is indicative of Pullman's interest in that era.

Pullman taught part-time at Westminster College, Oxford between 1988 and 1996, continuing to write children's stories. He began His Dark Materials about 1993. Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in the US) was published in 1996 and won the Carnegie Medal, one of the most prestigious British children's fiction awards, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

Pullman has been writing full-time since 1996, but continues to deliver talks and writes occasionally for The Guardian. He was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours list in 2004. Pullman also began lecturing at a seminar in English at his alma mater, Exeter College, Oxford, in 2004. He is currently working on The Book of Dust, a sequel to his completed His Dark Materials trilogy.

Bibliography

Non-series books

• 1972 The Haunted Storm
• 1976 Galatea
• 1982 Count Karlstein
• 1987 How to be Cool
• 1989 Spring-Heeled Jack
• 1990 The Broken Bridge
• 1992 The White Mercedes
• 1993 The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
• 1995 Clockwork, or, All Wound Up
• 1995 The Firework-Maker's Daughter
• 1998 Mossycoat
• 1998 The Butterfly Tattoo (re-issue of The White Mercedes)
• 1999 I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers
• 2000 Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline
• 2004 The Scarecrow and his Servant

The New-Cut Gang

• 1994 Thunderbolt's Waxwork
• 1995 The Gasfitter's Ball

Sally Lockhart

• 1985 The Ruby in the Smoke
• 1986 The Shadow in the North (first published as The Shadow in the Plate)
• 1990 The Tiger in the Well
• 1994 The Tin Princess

His Dark Materials

• 1995 Northern Lights, retitled The Golden Compass in the US
• 1997 The Subtle Knife
• 2000 The Amber Spyglass

Companion Books

• 2003 Lyra's Oxford
• 20?? The Book of Dust (not yet published)

Plays

• 1990 Frankenstein
• 1992 Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror

Non-fiction

• 1978 Ancient Civilisations
• 1978 Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary

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Further reading

• Lenz, Millicent (2005). His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Phillip Pullman's Trilogy. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3207-2.

External links

• Philip Pullman Resources
• Philip-Pullman.com Official site
• Philip Pullman di Pangkalan Data Cereka Spekulatif Internet

• Article: Pullman criticizes modern fiction The Guardian, August 12, 2002, "Fiction becoming trivial and worthless, says top author".
• Essay: Pullman criticizes a proposed "religious hatred" law The Guardian, November 19, 2005, "Identity Crisis".
• "The dark side of Narnia": Essay by Pullman.
• Pullman on religion (video)
• "For the Love of Narnia": Essay in response to Pullman.

• His Dark Materials.org fansite
• His Dark Materials | Bridge to the Stars fansite
• The Fiction of Ceres Wunderkind Fan fiction and articles
• Inside His Dark Materials Free online programmes about His Dark Materials