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Michael Morpurgo

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British children's writer

United KingdomWritersBorn 1943 · age 82
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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982).

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2018Knight Bachelor
2018Eleanor Farjeon Award
2014honorary doctorate
2005Hampshire Book Awards
2004Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2003Children's Laureate
2002Premio Bernard Versele
1996Nestlé Children's Book Prize
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Children's Book Award (UK)

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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.

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United Kingdom
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Born 1943 · age 82
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