Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer.
He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novels, and a number of other books.
His Dark Materials consists of Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (see also a short companion piece, Lyra's Oxford, containing items of interest and a short story, as well as the yet-unpublished prequel, The Book of Dust ).
The first volume of the trilogy, Northern Lights, won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995.
The Amber Spyglass, the last volume, was awarded both 2001 Whitbread Prize for best children's book and the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in January 2002, the first children's book to receive that award. The trilogy won popular acclaim in late 2003, taking third place in the BBC's Big Read poll.
In 2005 Pullman was announced as joint winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature.
We have the following Philip Pullman books in the library for you to borrow.
- Northern Lights
- The Subtle Knife
- The Amber Spyglass
- Count Karlstein
- The Ruby in the Smoke
- The Tin Princess
- The Shadow in the North
- The Firework-makers Daughter
