David Almond by Nacho Vallero

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05/15/1951	Born	Is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim. Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia. When he was young, he found his love of writing when some short stories of his were published in a local magazine.
08/11/1999	Skellig	Is a novel. for which Almond was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1998 and also the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2007 it was selected by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's literature as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years.
01/01/2000	Heaven Eyes	Is a fictional young adult novel by award-winning author
01/01/2001	Kit's Wilderness	It won the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association
01/01/2001	Secret Heart
03/18/2001	Wild Girl, Wild Boy	tured
03/18/2002	Wild Girl, Wild Boy published
01/01/2003	The Fire Eaters	It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award
01/01/2005	Clay
01/01/2008	Clay It was adapted for television
01/01/2008	The Savage
02/01/2008	Raven Summer
03/30/2008	Clay on aired BBC
11/01/2008	guest on Private Passions,	Biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3
01/01/2010	Awards	The prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for lifetime achievement in children's writing.