HisDarkMaterials.org

I found this article in the Guardian written by Louisa Young, the author of 'The Book of the Heart'. The article is about how almost every new promising author gets hailed as 'The New J.K. Rowling, and how this is getting out of hand. At the end of the article she writes:

"... "We are all the New JK Rowling now." Though I will myself soon be applying for the rather more exclusive (if less well-paid) position of the New Philip Pullman."

The New Pullman? Sounds good ... read the whole article below.

The Observer profile of Philip Pullman:

"Last week's Whitbread Prize winner has created a world inspired by Milton and Blake that is populated by gay angels with a liking for Kendal Mint Cake, nice witches and a delicious villain not a million miles away from Mrs Thatcher. Is this really kids' stuff? I'm just telling stories, he claims "

I found another interview with Philip Pullman, by the CBBC Newsround. In this interview Philip Pullman talks about The Book of Dust, his dæmon, the movies, the sad ending of HDM, and more.

Melissa mailed me this article from the New Zealand Herald. It mentions the movies, and the Book of Dust. Read it below.

I found this small autobiography of Philip Pullman.

Another interview, this time Philip Pullman was interviewed by Scholastic students.

A master of many genres, Philip Pullman is at the forefront of young adult fiction. His latest book is THE AMBER SPYGLASS, the third and most thrilling part of the HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy.

For those who are uninitiated, in the first book, THE GOLDEN COMPASS, Lyra, a little girl in a world a lot like our own, journeys to the far North to save her best friend Roger. She also must aid other kidnapped children --- evil scientists are conducting terrible experiments on them. The second book, THE SUBTLE KNIFE, takes Lyra to Cittàgazze, where she meets Will Parry, a fugitive boy from our own universe. Lyra and Will become good friends --- and uncover a deadly secret! And finally, in THE AMBER SPYGLASS, Lyra and Will travel between many worlds, in the end setting out to make their most haunting discovery yet.

Teenreads.com writer Jennifer Abbots recently had her ultimate dreams come true when she got a chance to talk with Philip Pullman about the big themes that run through his works.

Added another Philip Pullman biography. Find out how harmless Pullman is!

Part 2 of the Amazon interview in which Philip Pullman discourses on Dust, the first couple (the biblical rather than the presidential pair), and which of his several worlds he'd like to inhabit. He also poses the possibility of a prequel and much, much more.

In a transatlantic chat with Amazon.com's Kerry Fried, Philip Pullman discusses the completion of His Dark Materials and a mistake that C.S. Lewis really shouldn't have made. He also offers up his favorite characters, major and minor, discourses on whether or not you can choose your ideal dæmon (sorry, folks, not a chance), and dwells on the key turning point in human evolution (let's just say that it involves a certain serpent).

This is the ACHUKA interview with Philip Pullman. They interviewed him in December 1998. Enjoy!

Whatever the atheist equivalent of canonisation is, they are doing it to the children’s author Philip Pullman. The full power of secular liberalism is being deployed to magnify his glorious name. Last year he won the Whitbread Prize, normally reserved for adult authors. Now Radio Four is handing over three of its precious Saturday afternoons for an adaptation of his trilogy, His Dark Materials. Nicholas Hytner is preparing Pullman’s works for the stage of the National Theatre, and Hollywood is hoping to do for him what it did for Tolkien. In early March he will be beatified through an interview with Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show. Why is he suddenly so important?

Philip Pullman is being hailed as the new C. S. Lewis after being awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year prize for his latest novel aimed at children: The Amber Spyglass. The judges described it as visionary, but PETER HITCHENS reveals that the author appears to have his own sinister agenda…