Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman | |
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Pullman at the Oxford Literary Festival in April 2005 | |
| Born | 19 October 1946 Norwich, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | English |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Notable works | |
| Notable awards | Carnegie Medal 1995 Guardian Prize 1996 Astrid Lindgren Award 2005 |
| Spouse |
Judith Speller (m. 1970) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Alfred Outram Pullman Audrey Evelyn Merrifield |
| Relatives | Outram Marshall (great-grandfather) |
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| Website | |
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Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature, and has been awarded several honorary doctorates and other honours.