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Alan Garner

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Also known as Alan Henry Garner

English footballer (1951-2020)

Person · Open Library

Born
1934
Works
71

Top works

  • Los mejores relatos de fantasia II
  • Where Shall We Run To?
  • Once upon a time, though it wasn't in your time and it wasn't in my time, and it wasn't in anybody else's time--
  • Der Mond von Gomrath
  • The weirdstone of Brisingamen

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1921-06-15
Active to
1977-01-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
146
Total plays
2,149

Alan Garner spent his early childhood in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England, and he remains associated with the area. Many of his works are drawn from local legends and locations. Such works include The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, and The Owl Service. He attended Manchester Grammar School (where a library is named after him) and studied classics at Oxford. His early books were fantasy, marketed for children, though he was not ever comfortable with being labeled simply as a "ch

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date of death
2020-07-23
name in native language
Alan Garner
date of birth
1951-02-02
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