Alan Garner

Novelist, Author

1934 –

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Who is Alan Garner?

Alan Garner OBE is an English novelist 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, 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 briefly at Oxford University, in 1957 he moved to the nearby village of Blackden, where he bought and renovated an Early Modern building known as Toad Hall. His first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, was published in 1960. A children's fantasy novel set on the Edge, it incorporated elements of local folklore in its plot and characters. Garner completed a sequel, The Moon of Gomrath, but left the third book of the trilogy he had envisioned. Instead he produced a string of further fantasy novels, Elidor, The Owl Service and Red Shift.

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Born
Oct 17, 1934
Congleton
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Nationality
  • England
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Education
  • Manchester Grammar School
  • Magdalen College, Oxford

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on July 23, 2013

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