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David Almond was born in Newcastle
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He was educated at the University of East Anglia and Newcastle Polytechnic
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he worked as a teacher for five years before moving to a remote artists' commune in Norfolk to concentrate on his writing
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He then returned to Newcastle, where he worked as a part-time Special Needs teacher and edited the literary fiction journal Panurge. He is an experienced creative writing teacher and has worked for the Arvon Foundation and for schools, colleges and universities and is in demand as a speaker at festivals and conferences around the world.
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His first book, Sleepless Nights, a collection of short stories for adults, was published in 1985 and was followed in 1997 by a second volume, A Kind of Heaven
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Sleepless Nights writed in 1985
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A Kind of Heaven Iron Press, 1997
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His first children's novel, Skellig, the story of a strange, part-human 'creature' who transforms the lives of two young children forever, was published to immediate acclaim in 1998. The book won both the Carnegie Medal (1998) and the Whitbread Children's Book Award (1998).
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1998 Arts Council Writers' Award (for Literature for Young People) 1998 Carnegie Medal Skellig 1998 Whitbread Children's Book Award Skellig
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He was given an Arts Council Writers' Award to work on Kit's Wilderness (1999), a teenage novel inspired by the author's childhood memories of disused mines. It was awarded a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal (2000) and for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
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1999 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (shortlist) Kit's Wilderness 1999 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) Kit's Wilderness
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Kit's Wilderness Hodder Children's Books, 1999
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2000 Carnegie Medal (shortlist) Kit's Wilderness 2000 Whitbread Children's Book Award (shortlist) Heaven Eyes
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Heaven Eyes Hodder Children's Books, 2000
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Counting Stars Hodder Children's Books, 2000
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Secret Heart Hodder Children's Books, 2001
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2001 Carnegie Medal (shortlist) Heaven Eyes 2001 Michael L. Printz Award (USA) Kit's Wilderness
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Wild Girl, Wild Boy: A Play Hodder Children's Books, 2002
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Where Your Wings Were Hodder Children's Books, 2002
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Skellig: A Play Hodder Children's Books, 2002
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The Fire-Eaters Hodder Children's Books, 2003
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2003 Carnegie Medal (shortlist) The Fire Eaters 2003 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (shortlist) The Fire Eaters 2003 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (shortlist) The Fire Eaters 2003 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Gold Award) The Fire Eaters 2003 Whitbread Children's Book Award The Fire Eaters
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2004 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA) The Fire Eaters
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Kate, the Cat and the Moon Hodder Children's Books, 2004
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2004 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA) The Fire Eaters
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Clay Hodder Children's Books, 2005
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Click (contributor) Scholastic, 2007
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My Dad's a Birdman (illustrated by Polly Dunbar) Walker, 2007
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Jackdaw Summer Hodder Children's Books, 2008 The Savage (illustrated by Dave McKean) Walker, 2008
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Slog's Dad (illustrated by Dave McKean) Walker, 2009
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2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Sweden) (Sweden) (shortlist) 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award
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My Name is Mina Hodder Children's Books, 2010 The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon (illustrated by Polly Dunbar) Walker, 2010
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2007 Carnegie of Carnegies (shortlist) Skellig 2007 National Short Story Competition (shortlist - 'Slog's Dad')
