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Philip Pullman is an English author known for writing imaginative fiction that has captivated readers worldwide. His works are significant in children's and young adult literature for their complex storytelling and influential cultural impact.
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Philip Pullman is a contemporary writer living in Oxford, England. He is most famous for his His Dark Materials trilogy, first published between 1995 and 2000. The books – Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in the US), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass - have been shortlisted for and won Pullman numerous awards, most famously the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 2001. The Amber Spyglass was the first Children’s Book of the Year to win the overall award. <a href="https://w
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Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature, and has been awarded several honorary doctorates and other honours. Children's Literature Laureate Michael Morpurgo said of Pullman: "The range and depth of his imagination and of his learning certainly make him the Tolkien of our day".
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