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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Alan Garner</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alan_Garner.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Garner in 2011"><img alt="Garner in 2011" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Alan_Garner.JPG/200px-Alan_Garner.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Alan_Garner.JPG/300px-Alan_Garner.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Alan_Garner.JPG/400px-Alan_Garner.JPG 2x" data-file-width="994" data-file-height="1634" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Garner in 2011</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1934-10-17</span>) </span>17 October 1934<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 90)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Congleton" title="Congleton">Congleton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer, <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklorist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1960–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">Children's</a> <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Low_fantasy" title="Low fantasy">low fantasy</a>, folklore</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen" title="The Weirdstone of Brisingamen">The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_of_Gomrath" title="The Moon of Gomrath">The Moon of Gomrath</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elidor" title="Elidor">Elidor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Owl_Service" title="The Owl Service">The Owl Service</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Book_Quartet" title="The Stone Book Quartet">The Stone Book Quartet</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a> <br /> 1967 <br /> <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Guardian Prize">Guardian Prize</a> <br /> 1968 <br /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Griselda Garner (m. 1972)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alan_Garner_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Alan_Garner_signature.svg/150px-Alan_Garner_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="51" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Alan_Garner_signature.svg/225px-Alan_Garner_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Alan_Garner_signature.svg/300px-Alan_Garner_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="875" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alan Garner</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span></span> (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_fantasy" title="Children's fantasy">children's fantasy</a> novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_West_England" title="North West England">North West England</a>, being set in the region and making use of the native <a href="/wiki/Cheshire_dialect" title="Cheshire dialect">Cheshire dialect</a>. </p><p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Congleton" title="Congleton">Congleton</a>, Garner grew up in <a href="/wiki/Alderley_Edge" title="Alderley Edge">Alderley Edge</a>, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as "The Edge", where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region. Studying at <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Grammar_School" title="Manchester Grammar School">Manchester Grammar School</a> and then briefly at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford University</a>, in 1957 he moved to the village of Blackden, where he bought and renovated an Early Modern Period (circa 1590) building known as Toad Hall. His first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen" title="The Weirdstone of Brisingamen">The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</a></i>, was published in 1960. A children's fantasy novel set on the Edge, it incorporated elements of local folklore in its plot and characters. Garner wrote a sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_of_Gomrath" title="The Moon of Gomrath">The Moon of Gomrath</a></i> (1963), and a third book, <i><a href="/wiki/Boneland" title="Boneland">Boneland</a></i> (2012). He wrote several fantasy novels, including <i><a href="/wiki/Elidor" title="Elidor">Elidor</a></i> (1965), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Owl_Service" title="The Owl Service">The Owl Service</a></i> (1967) and <i><a href="/wiki/Red_Shift_(novel)" title="Red Shift (novel)">Red Shift</a></i> (1973). </p><p>Turning away from fantasy as a genre, Garner produced <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Book_Quartet" title="The Stone Book Quartet">The Stone Book Quartet</a></i> (1979), a series of four short novellas detailing a day in the life of four generations of his family. He also published a series of British folk tales which he had rewritten in a series of books entitled <i>Alan Garner's Fairy Tales of Gold</i> (1979), <i>Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales</i> (1984) and <i>A Bag of Moonshine</i> (1986). In his subsequent novels, <i><a href="/wiki/Strandloper_(novel)" title="Strandloper (novel)">Strandloper</a></i> (1996) and <i><a href="/wiki/Thursbitch_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thursbitch (novel)">Thursbitch</a></i> (2003), he continued writing tales revolving around Cheshire, although without the fantasy elements which had characterised his earlier work. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life:_1934–56"><span id="Early_life:_1934.E2.80.9356"></span>Early life: 1934–56</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life: 1934–56"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>"I had to get aback [to familial ways of doing things], by using skills that had been denied to my ancestors; but I had nothing that they would have called worthwhile. My ability was in language and languages. I had to use that, somehow. And writing was a manual craft. But what did I know that I could write about? I knew the land." </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">Alan Garner, 2010<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20108_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20108-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Garner was born in the front room of his grandmother's house in <a href="/wiki/Congleton" title="Congleton">Congleton</a>, Cheshire, on 17 October 1934.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was raised in <a href="/wiki/Alderley_Edge" title="Alderley Edge">Alderley Edge</a>, a well-to-do village that had effectively become a suburb of <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His "rural working-class family",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had been connected to Alderley Edge since at least the sixteenth century and could be traced back to the death of William Garner in 1592.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20105_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20105-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner has stated that his family had passed on "a genuine oral tradition" involving folk tales about The Edge, which included a description of a king and his army of knights who slept under it, guarded by a wizard.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the mid-nineteenth century Alan's great-great-grandfather Robert had carved the face of a bearded wizard onto the face of a cliff next to a well, known locally at that time as the Wizard's Well.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20108–9_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20108–9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Robert Garner and his other relatives had all been craftsmen, and, according to Garner, each successive generation had tried to "improve on, or do something different from, the previous generation".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20107_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20107-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner's grandfather, Joseph Garner, "could read, but didn't and so was virtually unlettered". Instead, he taught his grandson the folk tales he knew about The Edge.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner later remarked that as a result, he was "aware of [the Edge's] magic" as a child, and he and his friends often played there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20109_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20109-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story of the king and the wizard living under the hill played an important part in his life, becoming, he explained, "deeply embedded in my psyche" and heavily influencing his later novels.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Garner faced several life-threatening childhood illnesses, which left him bed ridden for much of the time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111Garth2013_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111Garth2013-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended a local village school, where he found that, despite being praised for his intelligence, he was punished for speaking in his native <a href="/wiki/Cheshire_dialect" title="Cheshire dialect">Cheshire dialect</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for instance, when he was six his primary school teacher washed his mouth out with soapy water.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner then won a place at <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Grammar_School" title="Manchester Grammar School">Manchester Grammar School</a>, where he received his secondary education; entry was <a href="/wiki/Means_test#United_Kingdom" title="Means test">means-tested</a>, resulting in his school fees being waived.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111Garth2013_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111Garth2013-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rather than focusing his interest on creative writing, it was here that he excelled at <a href="/wiki/Sprint_(running)" title="Sprint (running)">sprinting</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He used to go jogging along the highway, and later claimed that in doing so he was sometimes accompanied by the mathematician <a href="/wiki/Alan_Turing" title="Alan Turing">Alan Turing</a>, who shared his fascination for the <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios" title="Walt Disney Animation Studios">Disney</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)" title="Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)">Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner was then conscripted into <a href="/wiki/National_service" title="National service">national service</a>, serving for a time with the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a> while posted to <a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_East_(London_sub_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="South East (London sub region)">Southeast London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Garth2013_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Garth2013-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At school, Garner had developed a keen interest in the work of <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, he decided to pursue the study of <a href="/wiki/Classics" title="Classics">Classics</a> at <a href="/wiki/Magdalen_College,_Oxford" title="Magdalen College, Oxford">Magdalen College, Oxford</a>, passing his entrance exams in January 1953; at the time he had thoughts of becoming a professional academic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the first member of his family to receive anything more than a basic education, and he noted that this removed him from his "cultural background" and led to something of a schism with other members of his family, who "could not cope with me, and I could not cope with" them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Looking back, he remarked, "I soon learned that it was not a good idea to come home excited over irregular verbs".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1955, he joined the university theatrical society, playing the role of <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Mark Antony</a> in a performance of <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra">Antony and Cleopatra</a></i> where he co-starred alongside <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Moore" title="Dudley Moore">Dudley Moore</a> and where <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Baker,_Baron_Baker_of_Dorking" title="Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking">Kenneth Baker</a> was the stage manager.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 1956, he decided that he wished to devote himself to novel writing, and decided to abandon his university education without taking a degree; he left Oxford in late 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Garth2013_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Garth2013-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He nevertheless felt that the academic rigour which he learned during his university studies has remained "a permanent strength through all my life".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen_and_The_Moon_of_Gomrath:_1957–64"><span id="The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen_and_The_Moon_of_Gomrath:_1957.E2.80.9364"></span><i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i> and <i>The Moon of Gomrath</i>: 1957–64</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath: 1957–64"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Aged 22, Garner was out cycling when he came across a hand-painted sign announcing that an agricultural cottage in Toad Hall – a late medieval building situated in Blackden, seven miles from Alderley Edge – was on sale for £510. Although he personally could not afford it, he was lent the money by the local <a href="/wiki/Oddfellow" class="mw-redirect" title="Oddfellow">Oddfellow</a> lodge, enabling him to purchase and move into the cottage in June 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlackden_Trust2008PittsGarner201414_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlackden_Trust2008PittsGarner201414-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late nineteenth century the Hall had been divided into two agricultural labourers' cottages, but Garner was able to purchase the second for £150 about a year later; he proceeded to knock down the dividing walls and convert both halves back into a single home.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlackden_Trust2008PittsGarner201414_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlackden_Trust2008PittsGarner201414-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Toad_Hall_at_Blackden.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Toad_Hall_at_Blackden.JPG/220px-Toad_Hall_at_Blackden.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Toad_Hall_at_Blackden.JPG/330px-Toad_Hall_at_Blackden.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Toad_Hall_at_Blackden.JPG/440px-Toad_Hall_at_Blackden.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>In 1957, Garner purchased and began renovating Toad Hall at Blackden, Cheshire</figcaption></figure> <p>Garner had begun writing his first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen" title="The Weirdstone of Brisingamen">The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley</a></i>, in September 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However it was while at Toad Hall that he finished the book. Set in Alderley Edge, it revolves around two children, Susan and Colin, who are sent to live in the area with their mother's old nursemaid, Bess, and her husband, Gowther Mossock. While exploring the Edge, they encounter a race of malevolent creatures, the <i><a href="/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar" title="Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar">svart alfar</a></i>, who dwell in the Edge's abandoned mines and who seem intent on capturing them. They are rescued by the wizard Cadellin, who reveals that the forces of darkness are massing at the Edge in search of a powerful magical talisman, the eponymous "weirdstone of Brisingamen".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112–13_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112–13-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whilst writing in his spare time Garner attempted to gain employment as a teacher, but soon gave that up, believing that "I couldn't write and teach; the energies were too similar." Instead, he worked off and on as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Garner sent his debut novel to the publishing company <a href="/wiki/William_Collins,_Sons" title="William Collins, Sons">Collins</a>, where it was picked up by the company's head, Sir William Collins, who was on the lookout for new fantasy novels following the recent commercial and critical success of <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i> (1954–55).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELake2010317_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELake2010317-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner, who went on to become a personal friend of Collins, would later relate that "Billy Collins saw a title with funny-looking words in it on the stockpile, and he decided to publish it."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELake2010317_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELake2010317-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On its release in 1960, <i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i> proved to be a critical and commercial success,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Lake2010316–317_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Lake2010316–317-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later being described as "a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELake2010316–317_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELake2010316–317-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner himself however would later denounce his first novel as "a fairly bad book" in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198123_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198123-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With his first book published, Garner abandoned his work as a labourer and gained a job as a freelance television reporter, living a "hand to mouth" lifestyle on a "shoestring" budget.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also began a sequel to <i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i>, which would be known as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_of_Gomrath" title="The Moon of Gomrath">The Moon of Gomrath</a></i>. <i>The Moon of Gomrath</i> also revolves around the adventures of Colin and Susan, with the latter being possessed by a malevolent creature called the <a href="/wiki/Brollachan" class="mw-redirect" title="Brollachan">Brollachan</a> who has recently re-entered the world, having been freed from its underground prison by workmen. With the help of the wizard Cadellin, the Brollachan is exorcised, but Susan's soul also leaves her body, being sent to another dimension, leaving Colin to find a way to bring it back.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198113_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198113-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critic Neil Philip characterised it as "an artistic advance" but "a less satisfying story".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198113_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198113-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 1989 interview, Garner stated that he had left scope for a third book following the adventures of Colin and Susan, envisioning a trilogy, but that he had intentionally decided not to write it, instead moving on to write something different.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However <i><a href="/wiki/Boneland" title="Boneland">Boneland</a></i>, the conclusion to the sequence, was belatedly published in August 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elidor,_The_Owl_Service_and_Red_Shift:_1964–73"><span id="Elidor.2C_The_Owl_Service_and_Red_Shift:_1964.E2.80.9373"></span><i>Elidor</i>, <i>The Owl Service</i> and <i>Red Shift</i>: 1964–73</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Elidor, The Owl Service and Red Shift: 1964–73"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1962, Garner began work on a <a href="/wiki/Radio_play" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio play">radio play</a> entitled <i>Elidor</i>, which eventually became a novel of the same name.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198114_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198114-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Set in contemporary Manchester, <i>Elidor</i> tells the story of four children who enter a derelict Victorian church and find a portal to the magical realm of Elidor. In Elidor, they are entrusted by King Malebron to help rescue four treasures which have been stolen by the forces of evil, who are attempting to take control of the kingdom. The children succeed and return to Manchester with the treasures, but are pursued by the malevolent forces who need the items to seal their victory.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198114_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198114-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>"As I turned toward writing, which is partially intellectual in its function, but is primarily intuitive and emotional in its execution, I turned towards that which was numinous and emotional in me, and that was the legend of King Arthur Asleep Under the Hill. It stood for all that I'd had to give up in order to understand what I'd had to give up. And so my first two books, which are very poor on characterization because I was somehow numbed in that area, are very strong on imagery and landscape, because the landscape I had inherited along with the legend." </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">Alan Garner, 1989<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Before writing <i>Elidor</i>, Garner had seen a dinner service set which could be arranged to make pictures of either flowers or owls. Inspired by this design, he produced his fourth novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Owl_Service" title="The Owl Service">The Owl Service</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story, which was heavily influenced by the Medieval Welsh tale of <a href="/wiki/Math_fab_Mathonwy" title="Math fab Mathonwy">Math fab Mathonwy</a> from the <i><a href="/wiki/Mabinogion" title="Mabinogion">Mabinogion</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was critically acclaimed, winning both the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Children%27s_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Children's Fiction Prize">Guardian Children's Fiction Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also sparked discussions among critics as to whether Garner should properly be considered a children's writer, given that this book in particular was deemed equally suitable for an adult readership.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It took Garner six years to write his next novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Red_Shift_(novel)" title="Red Shift (novel)">Red Shift</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book centres on three intertwined love stories, one set in the present, another during the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, and the third in the second century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Philip referred to it as "a complex book but not a complicated one: the bare lines of story and emotion stand clear".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Academic specialist in children's literature <a href="/wiki/Maria_Nikolajeva" title="Maria Nikolajeva">Maria Nikolajeva</a> characterised <i>Red Shift</i> as "a difficult book" for an unprepared reader, identifying its main themes as those of "loneliness and failure to communicate".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989128_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989128-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultimately, she thought that repeated re-readings of the novel bring about the realisation that "it is a perfectly realistic story with much more depth and psychologically more credible than the most so-called "realistic" juvenile novels."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989131_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989131-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Stone_Book_series_and_folkloric_collections:_1974–94"><span id="The_Stone_Book_series_and_folkloric_collections:_1974.E2.80.9394"></span><i>The Stone Book</i> series and folkloric collections: 1974–94</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Stone Book series and folkloric collections: 1974–94"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1976 to 1978, Garner published a series of four novellas, which have come to be collectively known as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Book" class="mw-redirect" title="The Stone Book">The Stone Book</a></i> quartet: <i>The Stone Book</i>, <i>Granny Reardun</i>, <i>The Aimer Gate</i>, and <i>Tom Fobble's Day</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each focused on a day in the life of a child in the Garner family, each from a different generation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 1989 interview, Garner noted that although writing <i>The Stone Book Quartet</i> had been "exhausting", it had been "the most rewarding of everything" he'd done to date.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Philip described the quartet as "a complete command of the material he had been working and reworking since the start of his career".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner pays particular attention to language, and strives to render the cadence of the Cheshire tongue in modern English. This he explains by the sense of anger he felt on reading <i><a href="/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight" title="Sir Gawain and the Green Knight">Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</a></i>: the footnotes would not have been needed by his father. </p><p>In 1981, the literary critic Neil Philip published an analysis of Garner's novels as <i>A Fine Anger</i>, which was based on his doctoral thesis, produced for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this study he noted that "<i>The Stone Book</i> quartet marks a watershed in Garner's writing career, and provides a suitable moment for an evaluation of his work thus far."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strandloper,_Thursbitch,_Boneland,_Where_Shall_We_Run_To?_and_Treacle_Walker:_1996–present"><span id="Strandloper.2C_Thursbitch.2C_Boneland.2C_Where_Shall_We_Run_To.3F_and_Treacle_Walker:_1996.E2.80.93present"></span><i>Strandloper</i>, <i>Thursbitch</i>, <i>Boneland</i>, <i>Where Shall We Run To?</i> and <i>Treacle Walker</i>: 1996–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Strandloper, Thursbitch, Boneland, Where Shall We Run To? and Treacle Walker: 1996–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Garner_in_the_field.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Garner_in_the_field.jpg/220px-Garner_in_the_field.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Garner_in_the_field.jpg/330px-Garner_in_the_field.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Garner_in_the_field.jpg/440px-Garner_in_the_field.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1882" data-file-height="2608" /></a><figcaption>Garner at his home in Blackden, 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1996, Garner's novel <i><a href="/wiki/Strandloper_(novel)" title="Strandloper (novel)">Strandloper</a></i> was published. </p><p>In 1997, he next wrote <i>The Voice That Thunders, a</i> collection of essays and public talks that contains much autobiographical material (including an account of his life with <a href="/wiki/Bipolar_disorder" title="Bipolar disorder">bipolar disorder</a>), as well as critical reflection upon folklore and language, literature and education, the nature of myth and time. In <i>The Voice That Thunders,</i> he reveals the commercial pressure placed upon him during the decade-long drought which preceded <i>Strandloper</i> to 'forsake "literature", and become instead a "popular" writer, cashing in on my established name by producing sequels to, and making series of, the earlier books'.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner feared that "making series ... would render sterile the existing work, the life that produced it, and bring about my artistic and spiritual death"<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and felt unable to comply. </p><p>Garner's novel <i><a href="/wiki/Thursbitch" title="Thursbitch">Thursbitch</a></i> was published in 2003. </p><p>The novel <i><a href="/wiki/Boneland" title="Boneland">Boneland</a></i> was published in 2012, nominally completing a trilogy begun some 50 years earlier with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen" title="The Weirdstone of Brisingamen">The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</a></i>. </p><p>In August 2018, Garner published his first set of memoirs, <i>Where Shall We Run To?</i>, which describes his childhood during the Second World War. </p><p>The novel <i><a href="/wiki/Treacle_Walker" title="Treacle Walker">Treacle Walker</a></i> was published in October 2021 and nominated to the shortlist for the <a href="/wiki/2022_Booker_Prize" title="2022 Booker Prize">2022 Booker Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2024, a week before his 90th birthday, Garner published a second set of memoirs, <i>Powsels and Thrums</i>, framed and inspired by his grandfather. This book contains short essays on a variety of people and events in Garner's life from his starting at Manchester Grammar in 1946 through to his discovery of Alderley Edge in the 1950s, interspersed with poems. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With his first wife Ann Cook he had three children.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1972, he married for a second time, this time to Griselda Greaves, a teacher and critic with whom he had two children.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2014 interview conducted with <a href="/wiki/Mike_Pitts_(archaeologist)" title="Mike Pitts (archaeologist)">Mike Pitts</a> for <i>British Archaeology</i> magazine, Garner stated that "I don't have anything to do with the literary world. I avoid writers. I don't like them. Most of my close personal friends are professional archaeologists."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPittsGarner201415_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPittsGarner201415-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_style">Literary style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Literary style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>"I have four filing cabinets of correspondence from readers, and over the years the message is clear and unwavering. Readers under the age of eighteen read what I write with more passion, understanding, and clarity of perception than do adults. Adults bog down, claim that I'm difficult, obscurantist, wilful, and sometimes simply trying to confuse. I'm not; I'm just trying to get the simple story simply told... I didn't consciously set out to write for children, but somehow I connect with them. I think that's something to do with my psychopathology, and I'm not equipped to evaluate it." </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">Alan Garner, 1989<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Although Garner's early work is often labelled as "children's literature", Garner himself rejects such a description, informing one interviewer that "I certainly have never written for children" but that instead, he has always written purely for himself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Neil Philip, in his critical study of Garner's work (1981), commented that up until that point "Everything Alan Garner has published has been published for children",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19817_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip19817-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although he went on to relate that "It may be that Garner's is a case" where the division between children's and adults' literature is "meaningless" and that his fiction is instead "enjoyed by a type of person, no matter what their age."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19818_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip19818-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said "An adult point of view would not give me the ability to be as fresh in my vision as a child's point of view, because the child is still discovering the universe and many adults are not."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Philip offered the opinion that the "essence of his work" was "the struggle to render the complex in simple, bare terms; to couch the abstract in the concrete and communicate it directly to the reader".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He added that Garner's work is "intensely autobiographical, in both obvious and subtle ways".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Highlighting Garner's use of mythological and folkloric sources, Philip stated that his work explores "the disjointed and troubled psychological and emotional landscape of the twentieth century through the symbolism of myth and folklore."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198121_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198121-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also expressed the opinion that "Time is Garner's most consistent theme".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The English author and academic <a href="/wiki/Charles_Butler_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Butler (author)">Catherine Butler</a> noted that Garner was attentive to the "geological, archaeological and cultural history of his settings, and careful to integrate his fiction with the physical reality beyond the page."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEButler2009146_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEButler2009146-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a part of this, Garner had included maps of Alderley Edge in both <i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i> and <i>The Moon of Gomrath</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEButler2009146–147_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEButler2009146–147-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner has spent much time investigating the areas that he deals with in his books; writing in the <i><a href="/wiki/Times_Literary_Supplement" class="mw-redirect" title="Times Literary Supplement">Times Literary Supplement</a></i> in 1968, Garner commented that in preparation for writing his book <i>Elidor</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner1968577_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner1968577-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>I had to read extensively textbooks on physics, Celtic symbolism, unicorns, medieval watermarks, megalithic archaeology; study the writings of <a href="/wiki/Carl_Jung" title="Carl Jung">Jung</a>; brush up my <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>; visit <a href="/wiki/Avebury" title="Avebury">Avebury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Silbury_Hill" title="Silbury Hill">Silbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coventry_Cathedral" title="Coventry Cathedral">Coventry Cathedral</a>; spend a lot of time with demolition gangs on <a href="/wiki/Slum_clearance_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Slum clearance in the United Kingdom">slum clearance</a> sites; and listen to the whole of <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Britten</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/War_Requiem" title="War Requiem">War Requiem</a></i> nearly every day.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition_and_legacy">Recognition and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Recognition and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Medicine_House.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/The_Medicine_House.JPG/220px-The_Medicine_House.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/The_Medicine_House.JPG/330px-The_Medicine_House.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/The_Medicine_House.JPG/440px-The_Medicine_House.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>The Medicine House, an Early Modern building that was moved to Blackden by Garner.</figcaption></figure> <p>In a paper published in the <i><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_Association_Quarterly" title="Children's Literature Association Quarterly">Children's Literature Association Quarterly</a></i>, Maria Nikolajeva characterised Garner as "one of the most controversial" authors of modern children's literature.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989128_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989128-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the fiftieth anniversary edition of <i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i>, published by <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a> in 2010, several notable British fantasists praised Garner and his work. <a href="/wiki/Susan_Cooper" title="Susan Cooper">Susan Cooper</a> wrote that "The power and range of Alan Garner's astounding talent has grown with every book he's written", and <a href="/wiki/David_Almond" title="David Almond">David Almond</a> called him one of Britain's "greatest writers" whose works "really matter".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPullmanGaimanCooperNix20102_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPullmanGaimanCooperNix20102-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a>, the author of the <i><a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials" title="His Dark Materials">His Dark Materials</a></i> trilogy, went further: </p> <blockquote><p>Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">Tolkien</a>, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names. But that's the way with us: our greatest prophets go unnoticed by the politicians and the owners of media empires. I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPullmanGaimanCooperNix20101_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPullmanGaimanCooperNix20101-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>Another British fantasy writer, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, claimed that "Garner's fiction is something special" in that it was "smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPullmanGaimanCooperNix20101_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPullmanGaimanCooperNix20101-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Praise also came from Nick Lake, the editorial director of <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a> Children's Books, who proclaimed that "Garner is, quite simply, one of the greatest and most influential writers this country has ever produced."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELake2010315–316_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELake2010315–316-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Emma_Donoghue" title="Emma Donoghue">Emma Donoghue</a> recalls reading <i><a href="/wiki/Red_Shift_(novel)" title="Red Shift (novel)">Red Shift</a></i> as a teenager: "It looked like other Garners I had read: a children's fantasy. But <i>Red Shift</i>, with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to my core every time I read it, and still does... Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The biennial <a href="/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen_Award" title="Hans Christian Andersen Award">Hans Christian Andersen Award</a> conferred by the <a href="/wiki/International_Board_on_Books_for_Young_People" title="International Board on Books for Young People">International Board on Books for Young People</a> is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Garner was the sole runner-up for the writing award in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-andersen_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-andersen-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ibby-nominee_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ibby-nominee-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Garner was appointed <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">Officer of the Order of the British Empire</a> (OBE) for services to literature in the 2001 <a href="/wiki/British_honours_system" class="mw-redirect" title="British honours system">New Year's Honours list</a>. He received the <a href="/wiki/British_Fantasy_Society" title="British Fantasy Society">British Fantasy Society</a>'s occasional <a href="/wiki/British_Fantasy_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="British Fantasy Awards">Karl Edward Wagner Award</a> in 2003 and the <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Life_Achievement" class="mw-redirect" title="World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement">World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement</a> in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2011, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Warwick" title="University of Warwick">University of Warwick</a> awarded the degree of <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Letters" title="Doctor of Letters">Doctor of Letters</a> (<a href="/wiki/Honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Honoris causa">honoris causa</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On that occasion he gave a half-hour interview about his work.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Salford (2011) and the University of Huddersfield in (2012). </p><p>He has been recognised several times for particular works. </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Owl_Service" title="The Owl Service">The Owl Service</a></i> (1967) won both the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a><sup id="cite_ref-medal1967_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-medal1967-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Children%27s_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Children's Fiction Prize">Guardian Children's Fiction Prize</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-relaunch_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-relaunch-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the 70th anniversary of the Carnegie in 2007 it 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.<sup id="cite_ref-topten_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-topten-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen" title="The Weirdstone of Brisingamen">The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</a></i> (1960) was named to the <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll_Shelf_Award" title="Lewis Carroll Shelf Award">Lewis Carroll Shelf Award</a> list by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison_School_of_Education" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education">University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education</a> in 1970, denoting that it "belongs on the same shelf" with the 1865 classic <i><a href="/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland" class="mw-redirect" title="Alice in Wonderland">Alice in Wonderland</a></i> and its sequel.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Book" class="mw-redirect" title="The Stone Book">The Stone Book</a></i> (1976), first in the Stone Book series,<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb-stonebook_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-stonebook-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> won the 1996 <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Award" title="Phoenix Award">Phoenix Award</a> as the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 1981 film <i>Images</i> won First Prize at the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_International_Film_Festival" title="Chicago International Film Festival">Chicago International Film Festival</a><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Treacle Walker</i> was shortlisted for the <a href="/wiki/2022_Booker_Prize" title="2022 Booker Prize">2022 Booker Prize</a>, making Garner the oldest writer nominated at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television,_radio,_and_other_adaptations"><span id="Television.2C_radio.2C_and_other_adaptations"></span>Television, radio, and other adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Television, radio, and other adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i> was dramatised in 6 30-minute parts by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nan_Macdonald&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nan Macdonald (page does not exist)">Nan Macdonald</a> for the BBC's Home Service broadcast in November 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Elidor</i> was read in instalments by <a href="/wiki/John_Stride" title="John Stride">John Stride</a> for the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Jackanory" title="Jackanory">Jackanory</a></i> programme in June 1968.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Owl_Service_(TV_series)" title="The Owl Service (TV series)">The Owl Service</a> </i> (1969), a British TV series transmitted by Granada Television based on Garner's novel of the same name.</li> <li>A second adaptation of <i>Elidor</i> was read on a <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> in July 1972.</li> <li><i>Red Shift</i> (BBC, transmitted 17 January 1978); directed by John Mackenzie; part of the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Play_for_Today" title="Play for Today">Play for Today</a></i> series.</li> <li><i>To Kill a King</i> (1980), part of the BBC series of plays on supernatural themes, <i><a href="/wiki/Leap_in_the_Dark" title="Leap in the Dark">Leap in the Dark</a></i>: an atmospheric story about a writer overcoming depression and writer's block. The hero's home appears to be Garner's own house.</li> <li><i>The Keeper</i> (ITV, transmitted 13 June 1983), an episode of the ITV children's series <i><a href="/wiki/Dramarama_(TV_series)" title="Dramarama (TV series)">Dramarama</a>: Spooky</i> series</li> <li>Garner and <a href="/wiki/Don_Webb_(playwright)" title="Don Webb (playwright)">Don Webb</a> adapted <i>Elidor</i> as a BBC children's television series shown in 1995, comprising six half-hour episodes, starring <a href="/w/index.php?title=Damian_Zuk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Damian Zuk (page does not exist)">Damian Zuk</a> as Roland and <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Shaw" title="Suzanne Shaw">Suzanne Shaw</a> as Helen.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Owl Service</i> was adapted for the stage in 2004 by The Drum Theatre in <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>.</li> <li><i>Elidor</i> was dramatised as a radio play in four-parts by <a href="/wiki/Don_Webb_(playwright)" title="Don Webb (playwright)">Don Webb</a>, broadcast on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4_Extra" title="BBC Radio 4 Extra">BBC Radio 4 Extra</a> in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen" title="The Weirdstone of Brisingamen">The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</a></i>, 1960</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_of_Gomrath" title="The Moon of Gomrath">The Moon of Gomrath</a></i>, 1963</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elidor" title="Elidor">Elidor</a></i>, 1965</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Owl_Service" title="The Owl Service">The Owl Service</a></i>, 1967</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Shift_(novel)" title="Red Shift (novel)">Red Shift</a></i>, 1973</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strandloper_(novel)" title="Strandloper (novel)">Strandloper</a></i>, 1996</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thursbitch" title="Thursbitch">Thursbitch</a></i>, 2003</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boneland" title="Boneland">Boneland</a></i>, 2012</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Treacle_Walker" title="Treacle Walker">Treacle Walker</a>, 2021</i></li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_story_collections">Short story collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Short story collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Hamish_Hamilton_Book_of_Goblins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Hamish Hamilton Book of Goblins (page does not exist)">The Hamish Hamilton Book of Goblins</a></i>, 1969</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guizer:_A_Book_of_Fools&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Guizer: A Book of Fools (page does not exist)">The Guizer: A Book of Fools</a></i>, 1975</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Book_Quartet" title="The Stone Book Quartet">The Stone Book Quartet</a></i>, 1979</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Lad_of_the_Gad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Lad of the Gad (page does not exist)">The Lad of the Gad</a></i>, 1980</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fairytales_of_Gold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fairytales of Gold (page does not exist)">Fairytales of Gold</a></i>, 1980, (Illustrated by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Foreman_(illustrator)" title="Michael Foreman (illustrator)">Michael Foreman</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Book_of_British_Fairy_Tales&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Book of British Fairy Tales (page does not exist)">Book of British Fairy Tales</a></i>, 1984, (Illustrated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Collard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Derek Collard (page does not exist)">Derek Collard</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Bag_of_Moonshine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Bag of Moonshine (page does not exist)">A Bag of Moonshine</a></i>, 1986, (Illustrated by <a href="/wiki/P._J._Lynch" title="P. J. Lynch">P. J. Lynch</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Once_Upon_a_Time_(1993_short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Once Upon a Time (1993 short story) (page does not exist)">Once Upon a Time</a></i>, 1993</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Collected_Folk_Tales&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Collected Folk Tales (page does not exist)">Collected Folk Tales</a></i>, 2011</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_books">Other books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Other books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holly_from_the_Bongs:_A_Nativity_Play&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Holly from the Bongs: A Nativity Play (page does not exist)">Holly from the Bongs: A Nativity Play</a></i>, 1966</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Old_Man_of_Mow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Old Man of Mow (page does not exist)">The Old Man of Mow</a></i>, 1967</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Breadhorse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Breadhorse (page does not exist)">The Breadhorse</a></i>, 1975</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_and_the_Beanstalk_(Garner_book)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jack and the Beanstalk (Garner book) (page does not exist)">Jack and the Beanstalk</a></i>, 1992, (Illustrated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Julek_Heller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julek Heller (page does not exist)">Julek Heller</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Little_Red_Hen_(Garner_book)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Little Red Hen (Garner book) (page does not exist)">The Little Red Hen</a></i>, 1997</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Well_of_the_Wind&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Well of the Wind (page does not exist)">The Well of the Wind</a></i>, 1998</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grey_Wolf,_Prince_Jack_and_the_Firebird&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird (page does not exist)">Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird</a></i>, 1998</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Voice_That_Thunders&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Voice That Thunders (page does not exist)">The Voice That Thunders</a></i>, 1997</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Where_Shall_We_Run_To%3F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Where Shall We Run To? (page does not exist)">Where Shall We Run To?</a></i>, 2018</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Powsels_and_Thrums&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Powsels and Thrums (page does not exist)">Powsels and Thrums</a></i>, 2024</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20108_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarner2010">Garner 2010</a>, p. 8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompsonGarner1989_3-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThompsonGarner1989">Thompson & Garner 1989</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20105-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20105_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarner2010">Garner 2010</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20108–9-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20108–9_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarner2010">Garner 2010</a>, pp. 8–9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20107-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20107_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarner2010">Garner 2010</a>, p. 7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarner20109-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarner20109_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarner2010">Garner 2010</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111Garth2013-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111Garth2013_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198111Garth2013_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 11; <a href="#CITEREFGarth2013">Garth 2013</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2013-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2013_9-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarth2013">Garth 2013</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGarner2011" class="citation news cs1">Garner, Alan (11 November 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/alan-turing-my-hero-alan-garner">"My hero: Alan Turing"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 December</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=%27It+can+feel+quite+mysterious%27%3A+Alan+Garner+on+writing%2C+folklore+and+experiencing+time+slips+in+the+Pennines&rft.date=2024-12-14&rft.issn=0261-3077&rft.aulast=Jordan&rft.aufirst=Justine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2024%2Fdec%2F14%2Fwe-shared-a-quick-sense-of-humor-novelist-alan-garner-on-alan-turing-and-experiencing-time-slips-in-the-pennines&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Garth2013-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Garth2013_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Garth2013_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 12; <a href="#CITEREFGarth2013">Garth 2013</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlackden_Trust2008PittsGarner201414-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlackden_Trust2008PittsGarner201414_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlackden_Trust2008PittsGarner201414_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBlackden_Trust2008">Blackden Trust 2008</a>; <a href="#CITEREFPittsGarner2014">Pitts & Garner 2014</a>, p. 14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112–13-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112–13_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, pp. 12–13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELake2010317-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELake2010317_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELake2010317_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLake2010">Lake 2010</a>, p. 317.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Lake2010316–317-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198112Lake2010316–317_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 12; <a href="#CITEREFLake2010">Lake 2010</a>, pp. 316–317.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELake2010316–317-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELake2010316–317_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLake2010">Lake 2010</a>, pp. 316–317.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198123-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198123_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198113-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198113_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198113_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/15/alan-garner-weirdstone-brisingamen-trilogy-boneland">"Alan Garner to conclude Weirdstone of Brisingamen trilogy"</a>. Alison Flood. <i>The Guardian</i> 15 March 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198114-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198114_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198114_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198115_23-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198117_24-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip198116_25-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989128-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989128_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989128_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNikolajeva1989">Nikolajeva 1989</a>, p. 128.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989131-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENikolajeva1989131_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNikolajeva1989">Nikolajeva 1989</a>, p. 131.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilip19819_28-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPhilip1981">Philip 1981</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alan Garner, <i>The Voice That Thunders</i> (London 1997), p. 35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Garner, <i>Thunders</i>, p. 36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBayley2022" class="citation magazine cs1">Bayley, Sian (26 July 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/news/booker-prize-longlist-dominated-by-indies-as-judges-pick-youngest-and-oldest-ever-nominees">"Booker Prize longlist dominated by indies as judges pick youngest and oldest ever nominees"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bookseller" title="The Bookseller">The Bookseller</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London: HarperCollins Children's Books. pp. <span class="nowrap">05–</span>14.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Introduction+by+the+Author&rft.btitle=The+Weirdstone+of+Brisingamen&rft.place=London&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E05-%3C%2Fspan%3E14&rft.edition=50th+Anniversary&rft.pub=HarperCollins+Children%27s+Books&rft.date=2010&rft.aulast=Garner&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarth2013" class="citation web cs1">Garth, John (22 May 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141029060443/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/features/storyteller">"The Storyteller"</a>. <i>Oxford Today</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/features/storyteller#">the original</a> on 29 October 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 November</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Oxford+Today&rft.atitle=The+Storyteller&rft.date=2013-05-22&rft.aulast=Garth&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk%2Ffeatures%2Fstoryteller%23&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillies1975" class="citation journal cs1">Gillies, Carolyn (1975). "Possession and Structure in the Novels of Alan Garner". <i>Children's Literature in Education</i>. <b>6</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">107–</span>117. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01263341">10.1007/BF01263341</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144402971">144402971</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Children%27s+Literature+in+Education&rft.atitle=Possession+and+Structure+in+the+Novels+of+Alan+Garner&rft.volume=6&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E107-%3C%2Fspan%3E117&rft.date=1975&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1007%2FBF01263341&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144402971%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Gillies&rft.aufirst=Carolyn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHardwick2000" class="citation journal cs1">Hardwick, Paul (2000). "<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Not in the Middle Ages"?: Alan Garner's <i>The Owl Service</i> and the Literature of Adolescence". <i>Children's Literature in Education</i>. <b>31</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">23–</span>30. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1005182802582">10.1023/A:1005182802582</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:142545187">142545187</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Children%27s+Literature+in+Education&rft.atitle=%22Not+in+the+Middle+Ages%22%3F%3A+Alan+Garner%27s+The+Owl+Service+and+the+Literature+of+Adolescence&rft.volume=31&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E23-%3C%2Fspan%3E30&rft.date=2000&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1023%2FA%3A1005182802582&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A142545187%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Hardwick&rft.aufirst=Paul&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLake2010" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Lake, Nick (2010). "A Note from the Publisher". <i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i> (50th Anniversary ed.). London: HarperCollins Children's Books. pp. <span class="nowrap">315–</span>320.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=A+Note+from+the+Publisher&rft.btitle=The+Weirdstone+of+Brisingamen&rft.place=London&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E315-%3C%2Fspan%3E320&rft.edition=50th+Anniversary&rft.pub=HarperCollins+Children%27s+Books&rft.date=2010&rft.aulast=Lake&rft.aufirst=Nick&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLockwood1992" class="citation journal cs1">Lockwood, Michael (1992). "<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"A Sense of the Spoken": Language in <i>The Owl Service</i>". <i>Children's Literature in Education</i>. <b>23</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">83–</span>92. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01141845">10.1007/BF01141845</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144861457">144861457</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Children%27s+Literature+in+Education&rft.atitle=%22A+Sense+of+the+Spoken%22%3A+Language+in+The+Owl+Service&rft.volume=23&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E83-%3C%2Fspan%3E92&rft.date=1992&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1007%2FBF01141845&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144861457%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Lockwood&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNikolajeva1989" class="citation journal cs1">Nikolajeva, Maria (1989). "The Insignificance of Time: <i>Red Shift</i>". <i>Children's Literature Association Quarterly</i>. <b>14</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">128–</span>131. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fchq.0.0763">10.1353/chq.0.0763</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145471358">145471358</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Children%27s+Literature+Association+Quarterly&rft.atitle=The+Insignificance+of+Time%3A+Red+Shift&rft.volume=14&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E128-%3C%2Fspan%3E131&rft.date=1989&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Fchq.0.0763&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A145471358%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Nikolajeva&rft.aufirst=Maria&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPhilip1981" class="citation book cs1">Philip, Neil (1981). <i>A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner</i>. London: Collins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-195043-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-195043-6"><bdi>978-0-00-195043-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Fine+Anger%3A+A+Critical+Introduction+to+the+Work+of+Alan+Garner&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Collins&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=978-0-00-195043-6&rft.aulast=Philip&rft.aufirst=Neil&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPittsGarner2014" class="citation journal cs1">Pitts, Mike; Garner, Alan (2014). "Colouring the Imagination with Facts". <i>British Archaeology</i> (139). Council for British Archaeology: <span class="nowrap">14–</span>15.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=British+Archaeology&rft.atitle=Colouring+the+Imagination+with+Facts&rft.issue=139&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E14-%3C%2Fspan%3E15&rft.date=2014&rft.aulast=Pitts&rft.aufirst=Mike&rft.au=Garner%2C+Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPullmanGaimanCooperNix2010" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Pullman, Philip; Gaiman, Neil; Cooper, Susan; Nix, Garth; Almond, David; Faber, Michael (2010). "Praise for Garner". <i>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i> (50th Anniversary ed.). London: HarperCollins Children's Books. pp. <span class="nowrap">1–</span>2.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Praise+for+Garner&rft.btitle=The+Weirdstone+of+Brisingamen&rft.place=London&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E1-%3C%2Fspan%3E2&rft.edition=50th+Anniversary&rft.pub=HarperCollins+Children%27s+Books&rft.date=2010&rft.aulast=Pullman&rft.aufirst=Philip&rft.au=Gaiman%2C+Neil&rft.au=Cooper%2C+Susan&rft.au=Nix%2C+Garth&rft.au=Almond%2C+David&rft.au=Faber%2C+Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFReimer1989" class="citation journal cs1">Reimer, Mavis (1989). "The Family as Mythic Reservoir in Alan Garner's <i>Stone Book Quartet</i>". <i>Children's Literature Association Quarterly</i>. <b>14</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">132–</span>135. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fchq.0.0786">10.1353/chq.0.0786</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143190112">143190112</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Children%27s+Literature+Association+Quarterly&rft.atitle=The+Family+as+Mythic+Reservoir+in+Alan+Garner%27s+Stone+Book+Quartet&rft.volume=14&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E132-%3C%2Fspan%3E135&rft.date=1989&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Fchq.0.0786&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A143190112%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Reimer&rft.aufirst=Mavis&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThompsonGarner1989" class="citation web cs1">Thompson, Raymond H.; Garner, Alan (12 April 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/garner.htm">"Interview with Alan Garner"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141108181114/http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/interview-with-alan-garner">Archived</a> from the original on 8 November 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 September</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Interview+with+Alan+Garner&rft.date=1989-04-12&rft.aulast=Thompson&rft.aufirst=Raymond+H.&rft.au=Garner%2C+Alan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.rochester.edu%2Fcamelot%2Fintrvws%2Fgarner.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="But06" class="citation book cs1">Butler, Charles (2006). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/fourbritishfanta0000butl"><i>Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper</i></a></span>. Lanham MD: Scarecrow. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-5242-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-5242-6"><bdi>978-0-8108-5242-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Four+British+Fantasists%3A+Place+and+Culture+in+the+Children%27s+Fantasies+of+Penelope+Lively%2C+Alan+Garner%2C+Diana+Wynne+Jones%2C+and+Susan+Cooper&rft.place=Lanham+MD&rft.pub=Scarecrow&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-5242-6&rft.au=Butler%2C+Charles&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffourbritishfanta0000butl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlan+Garner" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Garner&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/alangarner?INTCMP=SRCH">Alan Garner</a> coverage by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1241337/">Alan Garner</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?668">Alan Garner</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n81044536">Alan Garner</a> at <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, with 48 library catalogue records</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/3450">Alan Garner papers</a> at the University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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L. Moore">C. L. Moore</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italo_Calvino" title="Italo Calvino">Italo Calvino</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp" title="L. Sprague de Camp">L. Sprague de Camp</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a> / <a href="/wiki/E._Hoffmann_Price" title="E. Hoffmann Price">E. Hoffmann Price</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jack_Vance" title="Jack Vance">Jack Vance</a> / <a href="/wiki/Donald_Wandrei" title="Donald Wandrei">Donald Wandrei</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon" title="Theodore Sturgeon">Theodore Sturgeon</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avram_Davidson" title="Avram Davidson">Avram Davidson</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Finney" title="Jack Finney">Jack Finney</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._F._Bleiler" title="E. F. Bleiler">Everett F. 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Grant</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gahan_Wilson" title="Gahan Wilson">Gahan Wilson</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Doherty" title="Tom Doherty">Tom Doherty</a> / <a href="/wiki/Carol_Emshwiller" title="Carol Emshwiller">Carol Emshwiller</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Crowley_(author)" title="John Crowley (author)">John Crowley</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fabian" title="Stephen Fabian">Stephen Fabian</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Ballantine" title="Betty Ballantine">Betty Ballantine</a> / <a href="/wiki/Diana_Wynne_Jones" title="Diana Wynne Jones">Diana Wynne Jones</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_and_Diane_Dillon" title="Leo and Diane Dillon">Leo and Diane Dillon</a> / <a href="/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip" title="Patricia A. McKillip">Patricia A. 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Martin</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Cooper" title="Susan Cooper">Susan Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Tanith_Lee" title="Tanith Lee">Tanith Lee</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Datlow" title="Ellen Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a> / <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Quinn_Yarbro" title="Chelsea Quinn Yarbro">Chelsea Quinn Yarbro</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper" title="Sheri S. Tepper">Sheri S. Tepper</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_G._Hartwell" title="David G. Hartwell">David G. Hartwell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski" title="Andrzej Sapkowski">Andrzej Sapkowski</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Brooks" title="Terry Brooks">Terry Brooks</a> / <a href="/wiki/Marina_Warner" title="Marina Warner">Marina Warner</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a> / <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Wollheim" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Wollheim">Elizabeth Wollheim</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki" title="Hayao Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jack_Zipes" title="Jack Zipes">Jack Zipes</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karen_Joy_Fowler" title="Karen Joy Fowler">Karen Joy Fowler</a> / <a href="/wiki/Rowena_Morrill" title="Rowena Morrill">Rowena Morrill</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hobb" title="Robin Hobb">Megan Lindholm</a> / <a href="/wiki/Howard_Waldrop" title="Howard Waldrop">Howard Waldrop</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" title="Samuel R. 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