His short story "The Pier Falls" was longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story. In an interview at, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences (it has been very successful with adults and children alike). The Curious Incident is written from the perspective of an autistic 15-year-old boy, Christopher John Francis Boone. The book was furthermore long listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. He also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Best First Book category, as The Curious Incident was considered his first book written for adults he also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of children's writers. In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award-in the Novels rather than Children's Books category-for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work. He wants to take more A-Levels, go to university and become a scientist.Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). Ĭhristopher receives an A grade for his Maths A-Level and begins to plan his future. Ĭhristopher’s father works hard to prove that he can be trusted. Christopher and his mother leave London and move back to Swindon. He finds his mother’s house, but Mr Shears is unwelcoming. Christopher becomes afraid of his father and decides to go to London to find his mother. He also admits that he killed Wellington. Ĭhristopher’s father says that he lied to him about his mother dying because he didn’t know how to explain the truth.
In the letters, she explains that she left his father and moved to London with Mr Shears.
He gets very angry and hides the book away.Ĭhristopher finds his book in a box, along with lots of letters addressed to him from his mother. Christopher writes this down in his book. Christopher suspects Mr Shears, who left Mrs Shears two years ago.Īnother neighbour, Mrs Alexander, tells Christopher that his mother was having a relationship with Mr Shears. He decides to write a murder mystery about who killed Wellington. Wellington belonged to Mrs Shears.Īt school, Christopher’s teacher asks him to write a story. One night, Christopher finds his neighbour’s dog, Wellington, dead. He believes that his mother died two years ago. Christopher Boone is 15 years old and lives with his father in Swindon.
0 kommentar(er)
