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Mark Haddon
 
Date of birth: 1962
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: England
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Novelist

Biography:
   Mark Haddon (born 1962) is a novelist, who was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford.

He won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a book that provides a realistic insight into what it is like to be autistic. (Haddon had worked with autistic people as a young man.) According to an interview with the author at Powells.com, this was th .... (More...)
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" A picture book is a fiendishly difficult thing to write, let alone illustrate. It took at least 50 drafts and more than two years for me to whittle 50,000 words to a workable 500. "

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" All adult writers do that: be both reader and writer at the same time. "

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" Appalling things can happen to children. Even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. "

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" As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. "

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" At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. "

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" B is for bestseller. "

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" Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. "

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" Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. "

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" Disability crops up here and there in my work. I wrote a radio play for BBC Radio 4 in the U.K. about two brothers, one of whom has Down's Syndrome. "

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" Eighteen or 20 years ago, autism wasn't a term that was even used much at the time. "

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" Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. "

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" For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. "

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" From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. "

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" Genre fiction says, Forget the gas bill. Forget office politics. Pretend you're a spy, a courtesan. Literary fiction says, You're stuck with who you are. "

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" Here is a fiction about a character who says he can only tell the truth, he can't tell lies-but he gets everything wrong. "

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