Skellig

Name: Skellig
Author: David Almond

Book by David Almond

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Author: David Almond
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-04-29
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Released: August 11, 1998
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group Limited
Language: English
Genre: children's novel

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Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. In 2007, it placed third in the "Carnegie of Carnegies", after Northern Lights and Tom's Midnight Garden. In the U.S., it was a runner up for the Michael L. Printz Award, which recognises one work of young adult fiction annually. Since publication, it has also been adapted into a play, an opera, and a film. In December of 2011, a prequel, My Name is Mina was published. William Blake's poems feature in the book, the play and the film.

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Narrative location: Newcastle upon Tyne
England
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Cover art by: Fletcher Sibthorp
Different from: Skellig
Title: Skellig
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-03-30
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Intended public: child
Has version, edition or translation: Skellig language: English
Nominations: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature(2000)
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1.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category_year.cgi?402+2000Retrieved 2025-07-10
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