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Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer from Norwich. He is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
The first book of His Dark Materials (Northern Lights) won the 1995 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. 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. Northern Lights won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" on 21 June 2007. It has been adapted as a film under its U.S. title, The Golden Compass.
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, the son of Audrey Evelyn Pullman (née Merrifield) and Royal Air Force pilot Alfred Outram Pullman. The family travelled with his father's job, including to Southern Rhodesia where he spent time at school.
His father was killed in a plane crash in 1953 when Pullman was seven, being awarded posthumously the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Pullman said at the beginning of a 2008 exchange that to him as a boy, his father "was a hero, steeped in glamour, killed in action defending his country" and had been "training pilots, I think." Pullman was then presented with a report from The London Gazette of 1954 "which carried the official RAF news of the day [and] said that the medal was given for 'gallant and distinguished service' during the Mau Mau uprising. 'The main task of the Harvards [the squadron of planes led by his father] has been bombing and machine-gunning Mau Mau and their hideouts in densely wooded and difficult country.' This included 'diving steeply into the gorges of [various] rivers, often in conditions of low cloud and driving rain.' Testing conditions, yes, but not much opposition from the enemy, the journalist in the exchange continued. Very few of the Mau Mau had guns that could land a blow on an aircraft." Pullman responded to this new information, writing "my father probably doesn't come out of this with very much credit, judged by the standards of modern liberal progressive thought" and accepted the new information as "a serious challenge to his childhood memory."
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 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 middle school children ages 9 to 13 at Bishop Kirk Middle School in Summertown, North Oxford 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 in about 1993. Volume I, Northern Lights was published in 1995 (entitled The Golden Compass in the U.S., 1996). Pullman won both the annual Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice.
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. He also co-judged the prestigious Christopher Tower Poetry Prize (awarded by Oxford University) in 2005 with Gillian Clarke. Pullman also began lecturing at a seminar in English at his alma mater, Exeter College, Oxford, in 2004,[8][9] the same year that he was elected President of the Blake Society.[10] In 2004 Pullman also guest-edited The Mays Anthology, a collection of new writing from students at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.
His Dark Materials is a trilogy consisting of Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995. The Amber Spyglass was awarded both 2001 Whitbread Prize for best children's book and the Whitbread Book of the Year 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 BBC's Big Read poll. Pullman later wrote two companion pieces to the trilogy, entitled Lyra's Oxford, and Once Upon a Time in the North. A third companion piece Pullman refers to as the "green book" will expand upon his character Will. He has plans for one more, the as-yet-unpublished The Book of Dust. This book is not a continuation of the trilogy but will include characters and events from His Dark Materials.
Pullman has narrated unabridged audiobooks of the three main novels in His Dark Materials. While Pullman is the narrator, the other parts are read by different actors, including Jo Wyatt, Steven Webb, Peter England, Stephen Thorne and Douglas Blackwell.
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman |
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass (read by Various Narrators)
Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (read by Lavinia Murray)
Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (read by Philip Pullman)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/07079b7a23d33055f561470fdb0de067/The_Golden_Compass.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/151148849795ef13fbe84936d7ebc188/The_Subtle_Knife.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/551f8ea910256668f12185f5544669f3/The_Amber_Spyglass.rar.html |
Sally Lockhart Books
Philip Pullman - The Ruby In The Smoke (read by Anton Lesser)
Philip Pullman - The Shadow In The North (read by Anton Lesser)
Philip Pullman - The Tiger In The Well (read by Anton Lesser)
Philip Pullman - The Tin Princess (read by Anton Lesser)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/ff124312f4d7594dd3cb68fa00e968cb/The_Ruby_In_The_Smoke.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d8f45bf351782d40034ba5e41a361617/The_Shadow_In_The_North.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/716c92931fd68a1bb298b03e4a2ca098/The_Tiger_In_The_Well.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b41e96e1de9fcfc9c2f7fd66ff6dbea4/The_Tin_Princess.rar.html |
Other
Philip Pullman - Count Karlstein (read by Jo Thurley)
Philip Pullman - The Scarecrow And His Servant (read by Graeme Malcolm)
Philip Pullman - The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ
Philip Pullman - Lyra's Oxford (read by Philip Pullman)
Philip Pullman - Once Upon A Time In The North (read by Philip Pullman)
Philip Pullman - The Firework-Maker's Daughter (read by Nigel Lambert)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/5fdcb83f23342c137d4d33bfbb9606c3/Count_Karlstein.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c635218f2bd641b2b56784c192406d53/The_Scarecrow_And_His_Servant.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ad0f90ddc524d125e1f51eb61bc978ad/The_Good_Man_Jesus_And_The_Scoundrel_Christ.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/26f5c70a5fd6b11c0d0e6468eef9eb08/Lyras_Oxford.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7edd3c762392c8908efe8d537ec21b7d/Once_Upon_A_Time_In_The_North.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bd76c7ba81b5ae454e18d562f5b09183/The_Firework_Makers_Daughter.rar.html |
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