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     • Alan Garner OBE FRSL (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.
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   Who is Alan Garner?

   • Alan Garner OBE FRSL (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.

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   • Alan Garner: ‘At 87, I’m recorded as “very fit, for his age”. The comma is a recent addition. But that’s no grumble’ Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alan Garner, 87, devised a new genre of myth-based fantasy with his first novel for children, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, published in 1960.

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   What books did Alan Garner write?

   • He also published a series of British folk tales which he had rewritten in a series of books entitled Alan Garner's Fairy Tales of Gold (1979), Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales (1984) and A Bag of Moonshine (1986).

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   Where does Alan Garner live?

   • Alan Garner continues to live in Cheshire, incongruously enough near to the Jodrell Bank radio telescope as well as ancient burial mounds, and draws much of the power of his writing from his sense of place and history, and that of his and his family's history within that place.

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   Where did Alan Garner grow up?

   • Garner grew up in Alderley Edge, a Cheshire village at the base of a steep escarpment of red sandstone, often known as The Edge (Credit: Alamy) "She wants to be flowers but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting." Alan Garner's most beloved and enduring novel is The Owl Service.

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   • Alan Garner: ‘At 87, I’m recorded as “very fit, for his age”. The comma is a recent addition. But that’s no grumble’ Alan Garner: ‘At 87, I’m recorded as “very fit, for his age”. The comma is a recent addition. But that’s no grumble’ Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

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   Alan Garner OBE FRSL (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.

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   Oct 13, 2024 · Alan Garner (born October 17, 1934, Congleton, Cheshire, England) is an English writer whose works, noted for their idiosyncratic style, are rooted in the myth and legend of the British Isles.

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   Oct 17, 2022 · With his latest novel, Treacle Walker, Alan Garner has become the oldest writer to be nominated for The Booker Prize. His strange and wonderful books have delighted generations and would make...

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   Alan Garner. 4th Estate, pp. 229, £14. Early one morning, Alan Garner goes to let the hens out. The hens live in a hutch in the garden of Toad Hall in Blackden, Cheshire, a medieval...

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   Alan Garner was the fan Guest of Honour at the World Fantasy Convention in 1981, but did not actually appear for personal reasons. He has won the Guardian Award (1968) and the Carnegie Medal (1968), both for The Owl Service (published 1967) - the first author to win both awards for a book, and the Phoenix Award (1996) for The Stone Book Quartet ...

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    Dec 18, 2021 · Alan Garner, 87, devised a new genre of myth-based fantasy with his first novel for children, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, published in 1960.

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    Aug 10, 2021 · Alan Garner is an author whose novels are rooted in myth and legend. Philip Pullman has called him ‘the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful’.