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biography of david almodn

Created by ceeci on Apr 1, 2011

Last updated: 04/01/11 at 06:13 AM

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• his last novel
  2010

  David Almond's work is translated into more than 20 languages. He lives in Northumberland. His latest novel is My Name is Mina

• books
  Jul 1, 2000

  Counting Stars (2000) is a collection of children's stories, again inspired by the author's memories of his own childhood and family, and a selection of stories from this volume was published separately in March 2002 under the title Where Your Wings Were.

• books
  Jul 1, 1999 to 2007

  In 2007, it was shortlisted for the Carnegie of Carnegies. He was given an Arts Council Writers' Award to work on Kit's Wilderness (1999), a teenage novel inspired by the author's childhood memories of disused mines.

• his first book for children
  1998

  His first children's novel, Skellig, who was published to immediate acclaim in 1998

• skellig
  1998

  The book won both the Carnegie Medal (1998) and the Whitbread Children's Book Award (1998).

• His first book
  1985

  Sleepless Nights, a collection of short stories for adults, was published in 1985

• the childhood
  1975

  when he was 8 up to 16 he moved several times from town to town.

• when and where he was born
  1951

  he was born in new castle in a big catholic family. he has four sisters and a brother.