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Robert Macfarlane é um escritor britânico, nascido em 1976, Fellow da Emmanuel College, em Cambridge. Elogiado pelas suas obras sobre Natureza e viagens, o seu primeiro livro, Mountains of the Mind, de 2003, foi vencedor do Prémio Guardian para Primeira Obra, do Prémio Somerset Maugham e do Prémio Sunday Times para Jovem Escritor do Ano. A sua obra, traduzida em várias línguas, tem igualmente vindo a ser adaptada para a televisão, rádio e palco. Em 2017, foi-lhe atribuído o prestigiado Prémio E.M. Forster pela Academia Americana de Artes e Letras.
William Boyd is also the author of A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys War Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunderstorms; and Waiting for Sunrise, among other books. He lives in London.
Candice Carty-Williams was born and raised in south London, by way of Jamaica. She is a novelist, showrunner, culture writer, and author of Book of the Year Award winning and Sunday Times bestselling Queenie, as well as the young adult novella Empress and Aniya, and the Sunday Times bestselling People Person. She adapted Queenie for Channel 4 and Hulu in 2024, and wrote and showran original drama, Champion, for Netflix and BBC One in 2023.
In 2016, Candice created and launched the Guardian and 4th Estate 4thWrite Prize for underrepresented writers, the first inclusive initiative of its kind in book publishing. Candice is the ex Guardian Review books columnist, has interviewed and written for i-D, Vogue, The Face, the Sunday Times, BEAT Magazine, Black Ballad and many more publications.
Queenie received global acclaim, and was described as vital, disarmingly honest and boldly political. It was adapted for Channel 4 and Hulu in 2024, and her original drama, Champion, aired on BBC One in the UK, and on Netflix globally, in 2023, receiving five stars across the board.
Philip Pullman nació en Norwich en el año 1946, fue educado en Inglaterra, Zimbabwe y Australia antes de que su familia se estableciera en North Wales. Recibió sus estudios medios en Ysgol Ardudwy, Harlech y después fue al Exeter Collage (Oxford).
Ha publicado casi veinte libros, principalmente, lectura para niños, aunque está encantado de decir que la edad de los lectores de su trabajo parece servariado. El primer libro para niños que escribió fue Count Karlstein (1982, y vuelto a publicar en el 2002). Fue seguido por The Ruby in the Smoke (1986), el primero era una serie de cuatro libros que narraban las aventuras de la joven Sally Lockhart. Hizo una gran investigación para esas historias y no tiene intención de dejarlo en el olvido, habrá más de ellos. También ha escrito varias historias cortas que, a falta de un mejor término, los llamó cuentos de hadas. En ellos se incluyen The Firework-Maker's Daughter, I Wasa Rat!, y Clockwork o All Wound Up. Esta es una historia que encuentra muy agradable, aunque es difícil de escribir. Sin embargo, su trabajo más conocido es la trilogía «His Dark Materials» («La Materia Oscura»), comenzando por Northern Lights (Luces del Norte, The Golden Compass'en USA) en 1995, continuado por The Subtle Knife (La Daga) en 1997 y concluyendo con The Amber Spyglass(El Catalejo Lacado) en el año 2000. Estos libros han recibido varios premios, incluyendo Carnegie Medal, Guardian Children's Book Award y (para El Catalejo Lacado) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (la primera vez en la historia que un libro para niños recibe dicho premio). En el 2002 recibió el premio Eleanor Farjeon de literatura para niños. En la ceremonia de dicho premio el autor prometió pasar más tiempo en el futuro haciendo menos discursos y escribiendo más libros.
Cuando no escribe libros le gusta dibujar y crear objetos de madera, también le gusta tocar el piano.
El propio Pullman nos cuenta en su página web: «Comencé el camino de la enseñanza con 25 años, e impartí clases en varias escuelas de Oxford, antes de trasladarme a Westminster Collage en 1986. Siempre he mantenido un apasionado interés hacia la educación, la cual me conduce ocasionalmente a hacer comentarios absurdos e imprudentes alegando que no todo está bien en nuestras escuelas. Sin embargo, mis puntos de vista en la educación son excéntricos y poco importantes. Realmente, lo único que llama la atención a cualquier persona es mi escritura».
JACKIE MORRIS grew up in the Vale of Evesham and studied at Hereford College of Arts and at Bath Academy. She won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, the highest honour in children’s book illustration, for The Lost Words. She has illustrated for the New Statesman, the Independent, and the Guardian, collaborated with Ted Hughes, and has written and illustrated over forty books, including beloved classics such as The Snow Leopard, The Ice Bear, Song of the Golden Hare, Tell Me a Dragon, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, and The Wild Swans. Jackie Morris lives in a cottage on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire.
Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, and the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, One Hundred Days was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and Voss literary prizes and longlisted for an ABIA Award in the category of Literary Fiction. Alice was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature in 2022.
Jancis Robinson is a Master of Wine, the Financial Times wine writer, and the author/editor of dozens of wine books, including The Oxford Companion to Wine and The World Atlas of Wine. Her award-winning website, www.JancisRobinson.com, has subscribers in more than 100 countries.
After earning an MBA at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, John Wood worked for several years in banking before joining Microsoft in 1991. Through hard work and determination, he ascended rapidly, earning coveted overseas assignments in Australia and China. While serving as Microsoft's Director of Business Development for the Greater China region, Wood decided to change his life's focus to help children break the cycle of poverty through the lifelong gift of education. In 2000, he founded Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes literacy in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and soon in Africa. When not traveling the world fund-raising and visiting Room to Read communities, he lives in San Francisco.
Markus Zusak is the international bestselling author of six novels, including The Book Thief and most recently, Bridge of Clay. His work is translated into more than forty languages, and has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia.
All of Zusak’s books – including earlier titles, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, When Dogs Cry (also titled Getting the Girl), The Messenger (or I am the Messenger) – have been awarded numerous honours around the world, ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes voted on by booksellers.
In 2013, The Book Thief was made into a major motion picture, and in 2018 was voted one of America’s all-time favourite books, achieving 14th position on the PBS Great American Read. Also in 2018, Bridge of Clay was selected as a best book of the year in publications ranging from Entertainment Weekly to the Wall Street Journal.
Markus Zusak grew up in Sydney, Australia, and still lives there with his wife and two children.
With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, S.F.Said, Madeleine Thien, Salley Vickers, John Wood and Markus Zusak
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection.
In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets.
'You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime.
'You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.
'And more than anything, over and over again, you will see books and words being given, received and read - and in turn prompting further generosity.'
Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of global literacy non-profit, Room to Read, The Gifts of Reading forms inspiring, unforgettable, irresistible proof of the power and necessity of books and reading.
Inspired by Robert Macfarlane
Curated by Jennie Orchard
Title : The Gifts of Reading
EAN : 9781474615693
Publisher : Orion
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