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May 1, 2024 · Philip Pullman (born October 19, 1946, Norwich, England) is a British author of novels for children and young adults who is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (1995–2000).. Pullman was the son of a Royal Air Force officer. His family moved many times during his childhood and settled for some years in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). On the long journeys dictated by his father’s ...
Biografie. Pullman verbrachte seine Kindheit in Rhodesien – dem heutigen Simbabwe –, Australien, London und Wales. Er studierte Anglistik am Exeter College in Oxford und war später Lehrer an einer Mittelschule, dann Literaturdozent am Westminster College in Oxford, wo er bis heute lebt. Er ist verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder.
The Secret Commonwealth. The Secret Commonwealth is a 2019 fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, the second volume of his planned trilogy The Book of Dust. The story is set twenty years or so after the events of La Belle Sauvage and ten years after the conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy. [2] Lyra Silvertongue is now an adult.
The Amber Spyglass is the third and final novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Published in 2000, it won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, the first children's novel to do so. [1] It was named Children's Book of the Year at the 2001 British Book Awards, and was the first children's book to be longlisted for the ...
Sir Philip Pullman CBE FRSL (born Norwich, England, 19 October 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. In 2008, The Times named Pullman in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [1] One of the greatest books to come around in ...
Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine (1489–91) was one inspiration for Pullman's dæmon. A dæmon (/ ˈ d iː m ən /) is a type of fictional being in the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.Dæmons are the external physical manifestation of a person's "inner-self" that takes the form of an animal. Dæmons have human intelligence, are capable of human ...
The Subtle Knife is a young-adult fantasy novel published in 1997 and the second book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The novel continues the adventures of Lyra Belacqua (now known as Lyra Silvertongue) recounted in the first novel, Northern Lights, as she investigates the mysterious phenomenon of Dust. Will Parry is introduced as a companion to Lyra, and together they explore ...
