Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1934
- Works
- 71
Top works
- Los mejores relatos de fantasia II
- Where Shall We Run To?
- Once upon a time, though it wasn't in your time and it wasn't in my time, and it wasn't in anybody else's time--
- Der Mond von Gomrath
- The weirdstone of Brisingamen
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Film & TV
Known for
- The Edge of the Ceiling1980
- All Systems Go: Alan Garner — Himself1973
- One Pair of Eyes1967
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 146
- Total plays
- 2,149
Alan Garner spent his early childhood in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England, and he remains associated with the area. Many of his works are drawn from local legends and locations. Such works include The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, and The Owl Service. He attended Manchester Grammar School (where a library is named after him) and studied classics at Oxford. His early books were fantasy, marketed for children, though he was not ever comfortable with being labeled simply as a "ch
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Congleton
- Occupation
- author
- Educated at
- Magdalen College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Alan Garner.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1934-10-17
- medical condition
- bipolar disorder
- Commons category
- Alan Garner
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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