Mark Haddon (GBR) * 26.09.1962 (62 let)
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Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prizefor that work.
Haddon was born on 26 September 1962 in Northampton, England. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.
After college, he was employed in several different occupations. One included working with people with disabilities, another included creating illustrations and cartoons for magazines and newspapers. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts, for a year with his wife until they moved back to England. Then, Mark took up painting and selling abstract art. Mark had a studio on the ground floor of his house; he thought that it looked like a primary school library on the inside. This is appropriate, however, considering that Haddon’s work is a self-proclaimed "distillation of all that was best about school".
In 1987, Haddon wrote his first children’s book, Gilbert’s Gobstopper. This was followed by many other children’s books, which were often self-illustrated.
Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs's story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. In 2007 he wrote the BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.
In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award—in the Novels rather than Children's Books category—for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Best First Book category, as The Curious Incident was considered his first written for adults; yet he also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of children's writers. The Curious Incident is written from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences (it has been a great hit with adults and children alike). His second adult novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.
His short story, "The Pier Falls", is currently longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story.
Haddon is a vegetarian and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He describes himself as a "hard-line atheist".
Haddon resides in Oxford with his wife Sos Eltis, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and their two young sons.
Bibliography:
Youth titles
Gilbert's Gobstopper (1987)
Toni and the Tomato Soup (1988)
A Narrow Escape for Princess Sharon (1989)
Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader (1993)
Titch Johnson, Almost World Champion (1993)
Agent Z Goes Wild (1994)
At Home
At Playgroup
In the Garden
On Holiday
Gridzbi Spudvetch! (1992)
The Real Porky Phillips (1994)
Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars (1995)
The Sea of Tranquility (1996)
Secret Agent Handbook
Agent Z and the Killer Bananas (2001)
Ocean Star Express (2001)
The Ice Bear's Cave (2002)
Boom! (An improved version of Gridsbi Spudvetch) (2009)
For adults
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
A Spot of Bother (2006)
The Red House (2012)
Poetry volume
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

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