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Philip Pullman (British writer)

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Pullman, Philip
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Date of birth
1946-10-19
Place of birth
Norwich

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Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is 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". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the 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.

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Series:
• His Dark Materials, which includes the sub-series:
- His Dark Materials trilogy
- The Book of Dust trilogy
• The New Cut Gang
• The Sally Lockhart Quartet

Last modified: 2022-02-24 (revision #84224)


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