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Philip Pullman
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Person

Philip Pullman

b. 1946

English author

Born
19 Oct 1946 · Norwich

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 92 years
  1. 19 Oct 1946BornBorn in Norwich
  2. 1995AwardCarnegie Medal
  3. 1996AwardGuardian Children's Fiction Prize
  4. 1996AwardNestlé Children's Book Prize
  5. 2001AwardFellow of the Royal Society of Literature
  6. 2002AwardEleanor Farjeon Award
  7. 2004AwardCommander of the Order of the British Empire
  8. 2005AwardAstrid Lindgren Memorial Award
  9. 2008AwardHonorary doctorate
  10. 2019AwardKnight Bachelor

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1946 – today).

  1. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  3. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  4. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  6. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  7. 1956Suez Crisis
  8. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  10. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  12. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  14. 1968Prague Spring
  15. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  16. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  17. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  18. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  20. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  21. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  22. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  23. 1985Schengen Agreement
  24. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  25. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  26. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  28. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  30. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  31. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  32. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  33. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  34. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  35. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  36. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  37. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  38. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  39. 20112011 Norway attacks
  40. 2011Libyan civil war

Biography

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. Children's Literature Laureate Michael Morpurgo said of Pullman: "The range and depth of his imagination and of his learning certainly make him the Tolkien of our day".

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