Philip Pullman is the author of several best-selling books, most
notably the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, its companion
trilogy The Book of Dust, and the fictionalised biography of Jesus,
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
He was born in Norwich, England, in 1946 and grew up in Zimbabwe
and Wales. He worked as a teacher for many years and his first
children's novel, Count Karlstein, came out in 1982. The Ruby in
the Smoke, the first of the Sally Lockhart quartet of Victorian
thrillers, was published in 1985.
He has won many awards for his children's books, including the
Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Award, the Smarties
Prize, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the Whitbread Book of
the Year Award and a CBE. His acclaimed fantasy trilogy, His Dark
Materials (Scholastic Books in the UK and Knopf in the US),
comprising Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber
Spyglass, has been published in thirty-nine languages, and even in
graphic novel form (with the French publishers, Gallimard).
His other books for children and young adults include Clockwork, I
Was a Rat!, and The New Cut Gang books; Thunderbolt's Waxwork and
The Gas-Fitter's Ball.
In 2010 he published his controversial number-one bestseller The
Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
He was knighted in 2019 for services to literature.
(Author photo by KT Bruce)
Nicholas Wright is a leading British playwright. His plays include:
8 Hotels (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2019); an adaptation of
Patrick Hamilton's novel The Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre,
2017); an adaptation of Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (Royal &
Derngate, Northampton, 2014); Travelling Light (National Theatre,
2012); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre, 2011);
Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2011); The
Reporter (National Theatre, 2007); a version of Emile Zola's
Therese Raquin (National Theatre, 2006); an adaptation of Philip
Pullman's His Dark Materials (National Theatre, 2003-4); Vincent In
Brixton (National Theatre, 2002; winner of the Olivier Award for
Best New Play); a version of Luigi Pirandello's Naked (Almeida
Theatre, 1998); and Mrs Klein (National Theatre & West End,
1988).
His writing about the theatre includes Changing Stages: A View of
British Theatre in the Twentieth Century, co-written with Richard
Eyre.
'Nicholas Wright... has risen to the challenge with brilliance'
*Mail on Sunday*
'"Unstageable" was the first reaction of the National Theatre's
artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, to the idea of dramatising His
Dark Materials. But last night's opening has triumphantly proved
him wrong'
*Sunday Times*
'Children's theatre of an uncommon maturity and ambition...
dazzling in just the right way... moments of heart-stopping
simplicity'
*Independent*
'The hottest ticket in town long before press day... Book to see it
next Christmas'
*Financial Times*
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