Terry Pratchett

Novelist, Author

1948 –

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Who is Terry Pratchett?

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for the Discworld series of about 40 volumes. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. His Discworld book, Snuff, was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-audience novel since records began in the United Kingdom, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.

Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and has sold over 85 million books worldwide in 37 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read non-US author in the US.

Pratchett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children.

In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Subsequently he made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, and filmed a programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC.

Famous Quotes:

  • Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage
  • The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
  • Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.
  • If you trust in yourself...
  • It is very important to be sober when you take an exam
  • IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.

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Born
Apr 28, 1948
Beaconsfield
Also known as
  • Terence David John Pratchett
  • Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE
  • Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Atheism
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • John Hampden Grammar School
Employment
  • Press officer, Central Electricity Generating Board
    (1983 - 1987)

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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