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David Almond (born 15 May ) is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from , each one receiving critical acclaim.

He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award.

For the 70th anniversary of the British Carnegie Medal in , his debut novel Skellig () was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.

It ranked third in the public vote from that shortlist.

David Almond at the meeting with readers at the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow

Early life and education

Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in and raised in neighbouring Felling.

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    • His father was an office manager in an engineering factory and his mother a shorthand typist. He was raised Catholic at St Joseph's Catholic Academy and had four sisters and one brother. As a ch