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Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman is an English writer best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the companion Book of Dust.
Biography
Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman was born 19 October 1946 and is an English writer best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies", and the third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017 he began a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust; its final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature and has been awarded several honorary doctorates and other honours. Children's Literature Laureate Michael Morpurgo said of Pullman: "The range and depth of his imagination and of his learning certainly make him the Tolkien of our day."
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Books by Philip Pullman
Daemon voices
Daemon Voices is a collection of more than thirty essays written over twenty years in which Pullman meditates on storytelling, the craft of writing, and the influence of education, religion, science and the classics on his literary life.