Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an acclaimed English writer best known for his fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials.
In 2008, The Times named him among the "50 greatest British writers since 1945," and a 2004 BBC poll ranked him the eleventh most influential person in British culture.
Northern Lights, the trilogy's first volume, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal and was later voted all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies." The trilogy ranked third in the BBC's Big Read poll.
Pullman was knighted in 2019 for services to literature.
