Biography Philip Pulman

Quotes about the author, Philip Pulman, is a modern British writer, best known as the author of the Dark Principle trilogy and the Salle Lokhart cycle. The father of the future writer was often sent to serve abroad, and in childhood, Philip saw many different countries: “We were like rifles,” he recalls. Until eleven years, Pulman lived in Australia and Zimbabwe. At the end of the fifties, the family returned to the UK, the school Philip graduated in North Wales.

After he entered the exeter college in Oxford, where he received a diploma in the field of English philology. For twelve years, Pulman worked as a teacher in secondary schools, and in the year he began to teach a course in the Victorian novel and folklore at the Westminster College. The writer enjoyed great respect among students and passionately loved this work, although over time he was forced to leave teaching in order to devote himself to writing books.

Now he writes three pages a day: goes to the garden at the house, takes out a notebook and a ballpoint pen and invent a story. Pulman tries not to start a day from scratch, so he comes up with the first sentence on the eve. The writer is married, he has two adult sons. Philip and his wife Juzhi live in Oxford. The literary work of Philip Pulman was addressed to an adult audience, but soon he began to write for children.

Some of his novels were based on plays created for school productions. Today, more than a dozen novels of the author, several dozen stories and articles, essays, plays and novels have been published. Among the published books of Philip Pulman there are the following works: “A book of dust. Great savage ”; “The adventures of John Blake. Riddle of a ghost ship ”; the cycle "Dark Principles"; Salle Lokhart cycle.

The writer became known thanks to the children's detective cycle about Sally Lokhart, from for a year he released four books about the adventures of the girl who lives in London of the XIX century. The poem of John Milton inspired the creature of the writer to create the Dark Principle cycle, which many call the artist’s work. The first novel of the series, the Northern Lights, was released in the year, two years later Pulman published a “wonderful knife”, and the end of the trilogy was printed in the year - the “Amber Telescope”.

Some critics say that in the “dark principles”, Philip is opposed to the cycle of “Chronicles of Narniy” Klava Lewis: Pulman considers Lewis’s novels a model of religious propaganda. The trilogy takes third place in the list of the best books according to the Air Force version. In the two thousandths, the writer released several more works, the action of which takes place in the Universe of the Dark Principles: in Russian you can read the stories “Oxford Lira” and “Lira and Birds”, the story “Once upon a time in the North” and a novel from the “Beautiful Dome” from the praise “Book of dust”.

Philip Pulman became a laureate of several literary awards: Carnegie medals, Gardian Awards, the British National Book Prize, a memorial award Astrid Lindgren. Similar authors.