Mark Haddon

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Mark Haddon (born October 28, 1962 in Northampton ) is an English writer .

Life

Haddon received his education at Uppingham School , at Merton College , Oxford ( Bachelor of Arts , 1982) and at Edinburgh University ( Master of Arts , 1984).

In 2003 he won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his book Supergute Tage or Die weird World of Christopher Boone (original title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ). In it, Haddon tries to give an insight into the worldview of an autistic boy who appears in the book as a first-person narrator.

According to an interview with the author at Powells.com, it was his first book that he had not designed as a book for children or young people, but for adults. So he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing the book to both audiences.

Mark Haddon's “Agent Z” series for young people are popular in Great Britain . He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs ' short story Fungus the Bogeyman , which aired in 2004. This script and another screenplay for the BBC's children's program won him the BAFTA award.

Mark Haddon is married to Sos Eltis, a professor at Brasenose College , with whom he lives in Oxford.

Works

  • Gilbert's Gobstopper
  • Toni and the Tomato Soup
  • A Narrow Escape for Princess Sharon
  • Agent Z | Agent Z meets the Masked Crusader
  • Titch Johnson, Almost World Champion
  • Agent Z | Agent Z Goes Wild
  • At home
  • At playgroup
  • In the garden
  • On holiday
  • The Real Porky Phillips
  • Agent Z | Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars
  • The Sea of ​​Tranquility
  • Secret Agent Handbook
  • Agent Z | Agent Z and the Killer Bananas
  • Ocean Star Express
  • The Ice Bear's Cave
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time , 2003 (German Supergute Tage or Die Sonderguten Welt des Christopher Boone , Blessing 2003, German by Sabine Hübner, ISBN 978-3896672285 , 2005, ISBN 3-442-46093-X , Audiobook, Rufus Beck (speaker), ISBN 978-3898307123 )
  • The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea , 2006
  • A Spot of Bother (German: The sore point . 2007, German by Anke Caroline Burger, ISBN 3-89667-292-4 , Audiobook, Joachim Król (speaker), Random House 2007, ISBN 978-3866047525 )
  • Boom! , 2009 (German: Boom!, Cbj 2010, German by Sabine Hübner, ISBN 978-3-570-13849-6 , audio book, Julian Rhind-Tutt (speaker), Random House 2009)
  • The Red House , 2012 (German: The Red House , 2012, German by Dietlind Falk, ISBN 978-3-89667-484-5 )
  • The Pier Falls: And Other Stories , 2016
  • The Porpoise . Chatto & Windows, 2019

The sore point

In 2006, the novel was published A Spot of Bother (German: The sticking point ) in the UK. The story is about George, his wife Jean, their daughter Katie and son Jamie and other people who appear in the different storylines. George is 57, hypochondriac and discovers a red dot on his hip, which is why he suspects he may have skin cancer even though his doctor diagnosed dermatitis . Concern for his physical health increasingly deteriorates his mental health. He decides to remove the sore point himself with scissors. Because of severe blood loss, he is taken to the hospital, where the single parent Katie finally makes the decision to marry Ray and move in with her son Jacob. Jamie is unhappy because his friend Tony left him. Jean has an affair with George's former colleague David, which George learns when he sees the two having sex. In the end, George and Jean decide to start a regular life.

Awards

for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Mark Haddon." Newsmakers , Issue 2. Thomson Gale, 2005
  2. ↑ "Mark Haddon." Debrett's People of Today . Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 2008
personal data
SURNAME Haddon, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Northampton