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Mark Haddon
English writer and illustrator (born 1962)
Mark Haddon | |
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| Born | (1962-09-26) 26 September 1962 (age 62) Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
| Occupation | Writer, illustrator |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | MA, English Literature |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford Uppingham School Spratton Hall School |
| Period | 1987–present |
| Genre | Novels, children's literature, poetry, screenplays, radio drama |
| Notable awards | |
| Spouse | Sos Eltis |
| Children | 2 |
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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, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
Life, work and studies
[edit]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
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2003 mystery novel by Mark Haddon
For the scen adaptation of the book, see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play).
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation bygd the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year,[2] the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book,[3] and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.[4] Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children.[5]
The novel is narrated in the first-person by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who fryst vatten described as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties" living in Swindon, Wilt
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is narrated by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome (a diagnosis now included in the autistic spectrum). Christopher knows “every prime number up to 7,507”, he goes to a “special school” and when he is overwhelmed, he stims to calm himself by making a noise his father calls “groaning”.
The 2003 novel, written for adults and children, was a near-instant bestseller and was even longlisted for the Booker Prize. It also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (though this was Haddon’s 18th book, it was considered his first for adults) and the Whitbread Prize. It has sold more than ten million copies and has been translated into at least 36 languages.
In 2012, it was adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens and the play has regularly been performed around the world ever since. A new Australian production has just open