David Almond
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David Almond FRSL (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written several books for children and young adults, each one receiving critical praise. He is one of thirty children's writers and one of three from the United Kingdom to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award. His debut novel Skellig (1998) was named one of the top ten Medal-winning books for the seventh year of the British Carnegie Medal, 2007 – a personal vote for the all-time favourite.
It came in third place in the public vote from that shortlist.
Early life and education
Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and grew in Felling, Newcastle. His father was a plant administrator in an engineering company, and his mother was a shorthand typist. He was raised Catholic at St Joseph's Catholic Academy, and he had four sisters and one brother. As an infant, he dreamed of becoming a writer and "wrote stories and stitched them into small books." He describes his childhood as one of "too much joy" but also "much sadness" because his younger sister and father were both killed at a young age.
He was educated at the University of East Anglia and Newcastle Polytechnic. Almond lived as a teacher for five years after graduating; he then moved to an artists' commune in Norfolk and concentrated on his writing. When he edited the literary journal Panurge, he returned to Newcastle and worked as a part-time special-needs tutor.
Personal life
Almond now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Freya is his daughter.
Career
Sleepless Nights was Almond's first collection of stories in 1985. In 1987, he launched A Kind of Heaven, his second collection. He then wrote a series of stories that drew on his own childhood and were later published as Counting Stars, which was published by Hodder in 2000. Four more Almond books made the Carnegie Medal shortlist of five to eight books in the first seven years. Since Skellig's novels, stories, and performances, his books, essays, and plays have also received international recognition and widespread critical acclaim. They are Kit's Wilderness (1999), The Secret Heart (2001), the Fire Eaters, Clay (2005), Jackdaw Summer (2008), and My Name is Mina (2010), a prequel to Skellig. He collaborates with leading artists and illustrators, including Polly Dunbar ("My Dad's a Birdman and The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon); Stephen Lambert (Kate, the Moon and the Monkey Wolf), and Dave McKean (The Savage, Slog's Dad and the forthcoming Mouse Snake Wolf). Wild Girl, Wild Boy, My Dad's a Birdman, Noah & the Fludd, and the stage adaptations of Skellig and Heaven Eyes are among his scripts.
Billy Dean's book The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean (2011) was released in two editions: Adult (Penguin Viking) and Young Adult (Puffin). The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas (illustrated by Oliver Jeffers) was among 2012's bestsellers. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf (illustrated by Dave McKean) was released in 2013.
His books are highly philosophical, and they would therefore appeal to both children and adults alike. The varied contrasts between apparent opposites (such as life and death, present and future, present and future); education; growing up and adapting to change; and the "self." He received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his writing, which biennially acknowledges one living author's "enduring contribution" to one living author. (He had been one of five finalists in 2008). Almond "writes about children in danger while still giving hope to them," the jury president said, quoting in particular his first two books, Skellig and Kit's Wilderness. As she attributed Almond's "important activity for all children around the world," she described "bibliotherapy" as a "vital service for all children around the world. The international jury ranked him as a finalist months before, citing his "deeply philosophical books that appeal to kids and adults alike" as well as encouraging readers by his use of magic realism. Almond was also a British nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Award at the same time. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.