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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.
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- “I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.”Mark Haddon
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- “It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. Y…”Mark Haddon
- “I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an enti…”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