Philip Pullman, (natural October 19, 1946) is a British writer, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, who is the best-selling creator of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and the total of more books, supposedly for toddlers, however attracting increasing attention by fully grown readers. A series consisted of Northern Lights, (A Golden Compass in the US), The Subtle Knife & A Amber Spyglass. Pullman was awarded the CBE in the New Month's Honours listings within 2004.

A number 1 volume of that trilogy, Northern Lights won a Carnegie Medal for children's fiction inside the UK in 1995. A Amber Spyglass, a go volume, was awarded a Whitbread Book of the Year prize in January 2002, a foremost babies's book to receive that award. A trilogy won popular plaudits within late 2003, ingesting third place in the BBC's Big Read poll.

Prefer a Harry Potter books, the His Dark Materials books keep close at hand been at a heart of disputation, especially by owning certain fundamentalist Christian groups. These are claimed by a select few that he actively pursues an anti-Christian agenda. Exponent of this watch point to the critical articles he wrote regarding C. S. Lewis's Narnia series (which Pullman denounces as propaganda), and the usually negative portrayal of the "Church" in His Dark Materials.

Them series resemble both more inside numbers of ways. Each feature babies facing grownup moral options, talking animate being, religious allegories, parallel worlds, & a fate of the worlds hanging in the balance. A number 1 promulgated Narnia book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe starts with a jeune fille hiding within the wardrobe, when does the number 1 Dark Materials book, Northern Lights.

Indeed, a bit of use seen a His Dark Materials series as a straight rebuttal of C. S. Lewis's Christianity-inspired series. Pullman has criticised particularly Lewis's utilise of the fancied curative for cancer around one of the Narnia books, which Pullman claimed would raise faithlessly hopes in tikes world health organization were themselves, or even even world health organization experienced friends or personal members world health organization were, seriously sick. He has too criticised a way Lewis excludes a character Susan from either a final heaven scenes in The Last Battle, saying that she "goes to hell" for her growing worldliness and her rejection of Narnia. Lewis fan argue that Pullman has page through far bay into this; indeed Lewis manufactured there are no such statement just about Susan's final destiny, & never excluded a possibility of her rejoining her friends inside heaven late.

Notwithstanding, Pullman has too uncovered trend lines from either additional liberal groups, virtually all notably Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. These point out that Pullman's attacks come revolve about the constraints of dogmatism and the utilize of religion to oppress, non Christianity itself. Dr. Williams hwhen never to return thus far as to propose that His Dark Materials exist when taught as a share of religious education in schools.

Within 2005 he wwhen announced as joint winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature.

He occurs as Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association & an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.

Additionally to writting, Pullman likewise began teaching Master level courses around English at his alma mater, Exeter College, Oxford in 2004.

Bibliography
A Haunted Storm (1972) Galatea (1976) A White Mercedes (1981) (later renamed A Butterfly Tattoo) Count Karlstein (1982) Detective Stories, illustrated by Nick Hardcastle (1985 or 1998) Training exist as Cool (1987) Spring-Heeled Jack: The Story of Bravery & Evil, illustrated by David Mostyn (1989) A Broken Bridge (1990) Frankenstein (1990) ''A Firework-maker's girl, illustrated by Susan Saelig Gallagher (1995) Clockwork or even Everthing Aroused, illustrated by Leonid Gore (1996) I personally was the Rat! or even A Orange red Slippers (1999) Puss within Boots: A Escapade of That Virtually all Enterprising Feline, illustrated by Ian Beck (2001) A Firework-Maker's Girl (1995) A Just released-Cut Gang: Thunderbolt's Waxwork (1994) A Gasfitter's Ball (1995) Sally Lockhart series: modern "penny dreadfuls" A Ruby in the Smoke (1985) A Shadow northwards (number 1 published when A Shadow in the Shell) (1986) A Tiger in the Easily (1991) A Tin Princess (1994) His Dark Materials trilogy and related works: Northern Lights, retitled The Golden Compass in the US (1995) The Subtle Knife (1997) The Amber Spyglass (2000) Lyra's Oxford (2003): postcards, a map of Oxford, and a short story from the His Dark Materials universe. The Book of Dust (not however published). The companion to His Dark Materials. A Strawman & his Servant (2004)

The recorded version of His Dark Materials'' hwhen Pullman reading as storyteller, by having dialogue performed by the cast of voice actors.