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- Kategorie: Bildung
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
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ANTHONY HOROWITZ
ENGLISH WRITER
•Born in 1955 in London
•Some of his works:
°The Maltese Falcon (1986), novel
°The Killer Photo (2005), short stories
°Sherlock Holmes is dead. Long live Moriarty (2014), novel
Anthony Horowitz is an English writer born in 1955. He is the author of more than forty novels, translated into many languages, and is a world-renowned writer. He is best known for his children's literature, with fantasy stories (such as Skull Island and its sequel, Cursed Grail, 1995) and crime novels (such as The Maltese Falcon and Public Enemy No. 2, 2014), which are always marked by twists and turns and a humorous style. He has also written novels for adults, such as Moriarty (2014), the sequel to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as well as scripts for television series such as Hercule Poirot (1991-2002) and Inspector Barnaby (1997-2000).
His work has won literary awards: the Polar-Jeunes prize in 1988 for Le Faucon malté, the European Children's Novel Prize in 1993 for L'Île du crâne and the Grand Prix des lecteurs du magazine Je bouquine in 1994 for Devine qui vient tuer (1991). In January 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Medal of the Order of the British Empire for ‘services to literature'.
SKULL ISLAND
A MODERN FAIRY TALE FULL OF HUMOUR
•Genre: fantasy novel
•Reference edition:L'Île du crâne, translated from English by Annick Le Goyat, Paris, Le Livre de Poche Jeunesse, 2014, 192 p.
•1st edition: 1988
•Themes : magic, fantasy, teenage, school, vampires, wizards
Published in 1988, The Skull Island (Groosham Grange in the original version) is a sort of modern fantasy fairy tale with hints of absurdist humour. It is the story of a 12-year-old boy, David Elliot, who manages to overcome parental and school obstacles and build himself up as a teenager, with the help of a whole series of strange characters.
The ironic writing, the presence of symbols, the fine allusions to present-day society and the lively rhythm of the dialogues makes the text very rich. The Island of the Skull was awarded the European Children's Novel Prize of the city of Poitiers in 1993.
