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Alan Garner


Born
in Congleton, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom
October 17, 1934

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Alan Garner OBE (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist who is best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. His work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.

Born into a working-class family in Congleton, Cheshire, Garner grew up around the nearby town of Alderley Edge, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as 'The Edge', where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region. Studying at Manchester Grammar School and then Oxford University, in 1957 he moved to the nearby village of Blackden, where he bought and r
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Treacle Walker

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Elidor

3.85 avg rating — 3,427 ratings — published 1965 — 88 editions
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The Moon of Gomrath (Tales ...

3.95 avg rating — 2,590 ratings — published 1963 — 84 editions
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Red Shift

3.60 avg rating — 1,587 ratings — published 1973 — 33 editions
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Boneland (Tales of Alderley...

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Thursbitch

3.64 avg rating — 901 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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The Stone Book Quartet

4.14 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 1976 — 18 editions
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Collected Folk Tales

4.08 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
Alan Garner, The Owl Service

“The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”
Alan Garner

“... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.”
Alan Garner, The Voice That Thunders

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MARCH FANTASY: This poll decides which two novels move on to the run-off polls for our March Fantasy Book of the Month!

 
  21 votes, 21.6%

 
  19 votes, 19.6%

 
  14 votes, 14.4%

 
  12 votes, 12.4%

 
  11 votes, 11.3%

 
  7 votes, 7.2%

 
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