![]() He discovered William Blake's illustrations around 1970, which would also influence him greatly. In an interview with the Oxford Student, he noted that he "did not really enjoy the English course", and that "I thought I was doing quite well until I came out with my third class degree and then I realised that I wasn't – it was the year they stopped giving fourth class degrees otherwise I'd have got one of those". įrom 1965, Pullman attended Exeter College, Oxford, receiving a Third-class BA in 1968. Around that time, Pullman discovered John Milton's Paradise Lost, which would become a major influence for His Dark Materials. In his early years, Pullman attended Taverham Hall School and Eaton House and, from 1957, he was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy in Harlech, Gwynedd, spending time in Norfolk with his grandfather, a clergyman. His mother remarried the following year and, following a move to North Wales, Pullman discovered comic books, including Superman and Batman, a medium which he continues to enjoy. he just took his plane up and flew into the side of a hill", citing rumours of his father having debt troubles and a problematic love affair. Responding to that new information, Pullman wrote: "My father probably doesn't come out of this with very much credit, judged by the standards of modern liberal progressive thought", and he accepted the revelation as "a serious challenge to his childhood memory." In the 2017 BBC series documentary Imagine, Pullman said that he has since become aware that his father could have crashed his plane deliberately, saying "There was something odd about the crash. Very few of the Mau Mau had guns that could land a blow on an aircraft." 'The main task of the Harvards had been bombing and machine-gunning Mau Mau and their hideouts in densely wooded and difficult country.' This included 'diving steeply into the gorges of rivers, often in conditions of low cloud and driving rain.' Testing conditions, yes, but not much opposition from the enemy, the journalist in the exchange continued. Pullman was then presented with a report from The London Gazette of 1954 "which carried the official RAF news of the day said that the medal was given for 'gallant and distinguished service' during the Mau Mau uprising. In an exchange with a journalist in 2008, Pullman said that, as a boy, he saw his father as "a hero, steeped in glamour, killed in action defending his country", and who had been "training pilots". In 1954, when Pullman was seven, his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in a plane crash in Kenya, being posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). The family travelled with his father's job, including to Southern Rhodesia, though most of his formative years were spent in Llanbedr in Ardudwy, Wales. Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, the son of Audrey Evelyn Pullman (née Merrifield) and Royal Air Force pilot Alfred Outram Pullman. In 2003, His Dark Materials trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public. It was filmed under the book's US title, The Golden Compass. ![]() It won that public vote and was named all-time " Carnegie of Carnegies" in June 2007. For the Carnegie's 70th anniversary, it was named in the top ten by a panel tasked with compiling a shortlist for a public vote for an all-time favourite. Northern Lights, the first volume in His Dark Materials, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature. ![]() In a 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". His books include the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, a fictionalised biography of Jesus. Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman CBE FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. ![]()
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