Occupation Writer, illustrator Role Novelist | Name Mark Haddon Nationality British Movies Coming Down the Mountain | |
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Born 26 September 1962 (age 61) Northampton, England, UK ( 1962-09-26 ) Period 1987–present (as writer) Genre Novels, children's literature, poetry, screenplays, radio drama Literary movement Postmodernism Transgressive Awards Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Books The Curious Incident o, The Red House, A Spot of Bother, Boom!, The Talking Horse an Similar People Simon Stephens, Sos Eltis, Marianne Elliott, Luke Treadaway, Nicholas G Carr | ||
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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 Prize for his work.
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- Mark haddon at 5x15
- The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by mark haddon summary minute book report
- Life and work
- Personal life
- Youth titles
- For adults
- Poetry volume
- References
The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by mark haddon summary minute book report
Life and 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.
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 very successful with adults and children alike). His second adult novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.
His short story, "The Pier Falls", was longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story.
Personal life
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.