He returned to Newcastle and worked as a part-time special-needs teacher while editing the literary journal Panurge.

After graduating, Almond worked as a teacher for five years he then moved to an artists' commune in Norfolk and concentrated on his writing. He was educated at the University of East Anglia and Newcastle Polytechnic. 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. He was raised Catholic at St Joseph's Catholic Academy and had four sisters and one brother.

His father was an office manager in an engineering factory and his mother a shorthand typist. Early life and education Īlmond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and raised in neighbouring Felling. It ranked third in the public vote from that shortlist. įor the 70th anniversary of the British Carnegie Medal in 2007, his debut novel Skellig (1998) was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.

He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award. Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writingĭavid Almond OBE FRSL (born ) is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.

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