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| Mark Haddon Mark Haddon has written screenplays, radio plays, children’s books and novels. His work for television includes Fungus the Bogeyman and Microsoap, for which he won two BAFTAs and a Royal Television Society Award. His books for children include Gilbert’s Gobstopper, Titch Johnson – Almost World Champion, The Real Porky Philips, the Agent Z series, The Sea of Tranquility and Ocean Star Express. He has illustrated many of these books himself. In a previous life he worked as a cartoonist for various newspapers and magazines, including The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian, for whom he co-wrote the cartoon-strip, Men – A User’s Guide. He has written two radio plays, 1,000 Ships and Coming Down the Mountain which won a Sony Award and which he is currently adapting into a screenplay. His first novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published simultaneously for adults and young adults by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling Books. It has been translated into thirty five languages and the film rights have been optioned by Heyday Films and Plan B Productions with Steve Kloves as writer and director. It has won sixteen awards, including The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the Waterstone’s Literary Fiction Award. In late 2005, Picador published his first collection of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea. Please visit www.markhaddon.com. |
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A Spot of Bother |
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