Biography for Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
Biography for Paul Kidby
Paul Kidby has illustrated Discworld and its inhabitants in The Pratchett Portfolio, The Discworld Diaries and A Tourist Guide to Lancre. He lives behind an easel in Somerset.
Biography for Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
Biography for Paul Kidby
Paul Kidby has illustrated Discworld and its inhabitants in The Pratchett Portfolio, The Discworld Diaries and A Tourist Guide to Lancre. He lives behind an easel in Somerset.
The house that Death built...and the garden, too.
Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling
Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was
published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty
bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies
worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and
screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the
Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to
literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his
greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
www.terrypratchettbooks.com
Paul Kidby (Illustrator)
Paul Kidby is best known for being the 'artist of choice' for Sir
Terry Pratchett. Paul started working with Terry in 1993 and has
designed the Discworld book jackets since 2002 following the death
of artist Josh Kirby. He has illustrated many Discworld
publications including The Art of Discworld, best-selling The Last
Hero and the Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium. In 2019 he
illustrated Good Omens written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
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