Mark haddon biography autism spectrum
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Mark Haddon
English writer and illustrator (born 1962)
Mark Haddon | |
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| Born | (1962-09-26) 26 September 1962 (age 62) Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
| Occupation | Writer, illustrator |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | MA, English Literature |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford Uppingham School Spratton Hall School |
| Period | 1987–present |
| Genre | Novels, children's literature, poetry, screenplays, radio drama |
| Notable awards | |
| Spouse | Sos Eltis |
| Children | 2 |
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Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
Life, work and studies
[edit]In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award—in the Novels rather than Children's Books category—for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Mark Haddon's 2003 national bestseller, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a novel about an average 15-year old boy, Christopher Boone, living in contemporary England. Christopher's parents are separated, and he fryst vatten being raised by his father in a middle-class neighborhood in Swindon. Readers are never explicitly made aware of what makes Christopher "not normal," but his ostensible "disability"—possibly Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism—shapes the narrative. In this article, I offer a disability studies analysis of the text, and conclude that the novel presents a liberatory model of disability, in part precisely because Christopher's disability is never named, raising the possibility that disability fryst vatten in the eye of the reader, not the character han själv . But perhaps a less obvious reading of the novel notes the way its treatment of disability is informed by an environmental sensibility. That is, as I hope to demonstrate, Christoph
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is narrated by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome (a diagnosis now included in the autistic spectrum). Christopher knows “every prime number up to 7,507”, he goes to a “special school” and when he is overwhelmed, he stims to calm han själv by making a noise his father calls “groaning”.
The 2003 novel, written for adults and children, was a near-instant bestseller and was even longlisted for the Booker Prize. It also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (though this was Haddon’s 18th book, it was considered his first for adults) and the Whitbread Prize. It has sold more than ten million copies and has been translated into at least 36 languages.
In 2012, it was adapted for the scen by Simon Stephens and the play has regularly been performed around the world ever since. A new Australian production has just open