David Almond

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Almond
Occupation	Children's Author
Date Of Birth	May 15, 1951(1951-05-15)
Age	73
Birthplace	Newcastle upon Tyne
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

David Almond Biography

David Almond is one of the most popular and richest Children's Author who was born on May 15, 1951 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom. Author of the Carnegie Medal winner Skellig (1998) The author is also well-known for similar children’s books like Kit’s Wilderness (1999), The Fire-Eaters (2003), and Clay (2005). He was named the 2010 winner of the highly coveted The Carnegie Medal-winning author of Skellig (1998), he is also known for such similarly popular children’s titles as Kit’s Wilderness (1999), The Fire-Eaters (2003), and Clay (2005). He was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s literature. Award for literature for children.

Nominated for an Oscar, actor Oscar-nominated actor Tim Roth played the title character in the 2009 movie adaptation of Skellig. played Skellig, the main character, in the 2009 film adaption of Skellig.

David Almond FRSL (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written several novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.

Almond published his first collection of stories in 1985, Sleepless Nights. His second collection, A Kind of Heaven, appeared in 1987. He then wrote a series of stories which drew on his own childhood, and which would eventually be published as Counting Stars, published by Hodder in 2000. In the next seven years, four more novels by Almond made the Carnegie Medal shortlist of five to eight books. Since Skellig his novels, stories, and plays have also brought international success and widespread critical acclaim. They are Kit’s Wilderness (1999), Heaven Eyes (2000), Secret Heart (2001), The Fire Eaters (2003), Clay (2005), Jackdaw Summer (2008), and My Name is Mina (2010), a prequel to Skellig. He collaborates with leading artists and illustrators, including Polly Dunbar (My Dad’s a Birdman and The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon); Stephen Lambert (Kate, the Cat and the Moon;) and Dave McKean (The Savage, Slog’s Dad and the forthcoming Mouse Bird Snake Wolf). His plays include Wild Girl, Wild Boy, My Dad’s a Birdman, Noah & the Fludd and the stage adaptations of Skellig and Heaven Eyes.

He was born with four sisters and a brother living in Northeast England. Later, he relocated to Northumberland with his wife of art, Sara Jane Palmer, and his daughter, Freya.

David Almond Net Worth

David Almond is one of the richest Children's Author from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Almond 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student in The University of East Anglia. Then, he spent the next decade of silence, writing only adult fiction as well as his novel of 1987, A Kind of Heaven.

The writer taught writing in creative classes at Nottingham Trent University and Bath Spa University.

Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and raised in neighbouring Felling in Gateshead. 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 child, he dreamed of becoming a writer and “wrote stories and stitched them into little books.” He describes his childhood as one with “much joy” but also “much sadness,” losing his younger sister and father at a young age.

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Who is David Almond Dating?

According to our records, David Almond married to Sara Jane Palmer. As of December 1, 2023, David Almond’s is not dating anyone.

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Almond’s major awards include the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Carnegie Medal (Skellig); two Whitbread Awards; the U.S. Michael L. Printz Award for young-adult books (Kit’s Wilderness); the Smarties Prize, ages 9–11 years (The Fire-Eaters); the U.S. Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Children’s Fiction (The Fire-Eaters); the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (A Song for Ella Grey); Le Prix Sorceress (France); the Katholischer Kinder-und Jugendbuchpreis (Germany); and a Silver Pencil and three Silver Kisses (Netherlands).

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Children's Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. David Almond celebrates birthday on May 15 of every year.

Does David Almond have a wife?

Sara Jane Palmer

What age is David Almond?

71 years (May 15, 1951)

What inspired David Almond to write Skellig?

I could see that it drew on my own childhood, my own life. I lost a baby sister when I was a boy. My mother had terrible arthritis, just as the creature has. It is set in the house in which I lived, in Heaton in Newcastle.

What is David almonds approach to writing?

Almond combines a variety of influences : most of his fiction is set in his home territory of north-east England, poignantly capturing its landscape, people and mythologies; other influences include magic realist literature, Arthurian legend and the work of William Blake.

Where does David Almond live now?

Almond now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has a daughter, Freya.