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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- 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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Lambeth
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Portsmouth F.C.
- Position played
- defender
- Country for sport
- England
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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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