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My Take
David Almond earns my deepest respect. The Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Printz, these are not casual honours, and he holds them all. Skellig, his tale of a strange figure found in a crumbling garage, slips far beyond the children's shelf and quietly grips adults too. I admire how he roots magic in the working-class air of North East England, refusing to condescend to young readers and instead pouring his most serious soul into books meant for them. Writers who treat children's literature as the highest calling, not the easiest, are the ones who truly last, and he is squarely among them.
Overview
David John Almond was born May 15, 1951 and is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim. He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- David Almond
- Name (Japanese)
- デイヴィッド・アーモンド
- Reading
- でいゔぃっど・あーもんど
- Born
- May 15, 1951 (age 75)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Rabbit
- Origin
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- writer / children's writer / author / novelist / young adult author
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of East Anglia
Awards & achievements
- Hans Christian Andersen Award
- 2000 Zilveren Griffel
- 2006 Zilveren Zoen
- 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award
- 1998 Carnegie Medal
- 2001 Michael L. Printz Award
- 2003 Nestlé Children's Book Prize
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Skellig | — | |
| Notable work | Kit's Wilderness | — | |
| Notable work | The Fire-Eaters | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.