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• My Name is Mina
  2010

  My Name is Mina is a prequel to Skellig, was published. My Name is Mina is written as Mina's journal, and is about her life before she met Michael.

• Awards
  2010

  He was awarded the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for lifetime achievement in children's writing.

• Work
  2008

  He was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3

• The Savage
  2008

• Raven Summer
  2008

• Actuality life
  2007

  Almond currently lives with his family in Northumberland, England. Since 2007 he has been a Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University

• Clay
  2005

• The Fire Eaters
  2003

• Wild Girl, Wild Boy
  Jul 1, 2001

  His first play aimed at adolescents

• Secret Heart
  2001

• Heaven Eyes
  2000

• Kit's Wilderness
  1999

• Skellig
  1998

  That was his first children's novel. He won the Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award and also the Carnegie Medal. It has been adapted into a stage play, film and opera.

• Sleepless Nights
  1985

  He started out as an author of adult fiction . He publishing 500 copies

• Early life
  1967

  Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia

• Birth day
  May 15, 1951

  David Almond