The success of his graphic fiction works, his novels, and his screenplays, have seen him evolve into one of Britain’s most prolific and durable literary exports. Pointing to the same quirk of the modern literary world, the London Times recently referred to him as “the most famous writer you’ve never heard of.” ( Times, 2008). As the Telegraph have recently observed, “you're either a Gaiman fan, in which case you know absolutely everything about him, or you've never heard of him” ( Telegraph, 2005). Neil Gaiman is married to the musician Amanda Palmer, they have a son, Anthony, together.Īs one of the world’s most famous cult writers, Gaiman has a paradoxical kind of fame.

A film adaptation of the novel is planned. Gaiman's 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards and was a New York Times Best Seller. The awarding of the 2010 UK CILIP Carnegie Medal makes Gaiman the first author ever to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal with the same book. His work for young readers, The Graveyard Book was published in 2008 and won the UK’s Booktrust Prize for Teenage Fiction and the Newbery Medal, the highest honor given in US children’s literature, as well as the Locus Young Adult Award and the Hugo Best Novel Prize. He is also an established writer for children.

His 2011 episode of Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife,” caused the London Times to describe him as “a hero.” An animated feature film based on his book ‘ Coraline,’ directed by Henry Selick and released in early 2009, secured a BAFTA for Best Animated Film and was nominated for an Oscar in the same category. He wrote the screenplay for the original BBC TV series of ‘Neverwhere’ (1996) the feature film, ‘ Mirrormask’ (2005), the script to Robert Zemeckis’s ‘ Beowulf.’ He has written and directed two films: ‘ A Short Film About John Bolton’ (2002) and ‘Statuesque’ (2009).

Gaiman is active as a television and screenwriter. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, in 1960 and since 1992 has lived in the United States, currently residing near Minneapolis.įollowing the publication of his groundbreaking series ‘ Sandman’ (1989-1996) he has become established as one of the creators of modern comics, as well as an author whose work crosses genres and reaches audiences of all ages.

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