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About Mark Haddon
English novelist
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, published in 2003. He has 129 quotes on the site. He is also the recipient of the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His reputation rests on fiction that reached a wide readership and brought him several major literary honors.
More from Mark Haddon (129 quotes) →Keep reading Mark Haddon
- “At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children…”Mark Haddon
- “He is the only man she has ever loved, and he has dumped her like ballast. She needs to find an explanation t…”Mark Haddon
- “Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and…”Mark Haddon
- “Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think ar…”Mark Haddon
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Books by Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2004
A Spot of Bother
2006
Gridzbi Spudvetch!
1993
The Porpoise
2019
The red house
2012