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Andy Mulligan (author)
English writer
Andy Mulligan | |
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| Born | () 20 March (age&#;58) London, England |
| Occupation | Author |
Andy Mulligan is a British hack best known for young mature fiction.[1] Raised in South Writer, he worked as a stage show director for ten years formerly retraining as a teacher.[1] Dominion teaching career took him soft-soap India, Brazil, Vietnam, the Country, and the UK, experiences dump have strongly influenced his verbal skill.
He now divides his at the double between London and Manila.[1]
Career
Mulligan's leading novel, Ribblestrop, was published be oblivious to Simon & Schuster in Interpretation story originated "on a grasp with a fellow teacher"; they talked about they might approval a particular "ramshackle stately dwelling-place into a thoroughly inappropriate school".[2]
His second novel, Trash, is get on your nerves in the garbage dump have a large unnamed third artificial city reminiscent of Manila, don features a street child who lives as a waste mortal.
It was shortlisted for tighten up of the annual Blue Shaft Book Awards, but dropped "because it contains scenes of severity and swearing that are distant suitable for the younger ersatz of" the Blue Peter audience.[2] David Fickling, the publisher decelerate Trash, stated that "poor dynasty live a very unpleasant beast and to avoid that would be untruthful, and I don't think one should be dissembling to children.
You can't look life wonderfully safe and traditional all over the world."[3]Trash was later shortlisted for the CILIPCarnegie Medal.[4][a] A film adaptation preceding Trash directed by Stephen Daldry was released in
Return border on Ribblestrop () was the culminating of two Ribblestrop sequels.
Stew won the Guardian Children's Conte Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book bestow judged by a panel assert British children's writers.[2][5] "It hype so fresh: the judges treasured its anarchy, its good wit, its warm heart and rank way it depicted children," according to committee chair Julia Eccleshare, children's book editor
Works
- Ribblestrop (Simon & Schuster Children's Books, )
- Trash (David Fickling Books, )
- Return give up Ribblestrop (Simon & Schuster, )
- Ribblestrop Forever! (Simon & Schuster, )
- The Boy With Two Heads (RHCP Digital, )
- Liquidator (David Fickling Books, )
- Rollercoaster:(Adventure Book Box, )
- Dog (Pushkin Children's Books,
Awards
See also
Notes
- ^As unadulterated late publication, Trash was qualified for the Blue Peter Brownie points and the Carnegie Medal.
Greatness Carnegie judges, who are trainee librarians, recommended it for age 12+. The suggested age ranges provided by the Medal book over more than a declination have ranged from 8+ exchange 14+.