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Garner Alan
Birth at
17 October 1934
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Alan Garner is an English writer known for fantasy books for children. In addition, he was engaged in retelling traditional English folk tales. His books are written using the Cheshire dialect, as the county of Cheshire is his homeland. Alan Garner was born in 1934 in Congleton to a working-class family and spent his childhood in the nearby village of Alderley Edge. His childhood and youth were spent in wooded areas. It was there that interest in local folklore arose. Garner went to Mancherster.
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Alan Garner is an English writer known for fantasy books for children. In addition, he was engaged in retelling traditional English folk tales. His books are written using the Cheshire dialect, as the county of Cheshire is his homeland.
Alan Garner was born in 1934 in Congleton to a working-class family and spent his childhood in the nearby village of Alderley Edge. His childhood and youth were spent in wooded areas. It was there that interest in local folklore arose.
Garner went to Mancherster. After graduation, he entered Oxford University. In 1957, Alan moved to a village where he purchased a late medieval building called Todd Hall. It was there that his first novel, The Magic Stone of Brisingaman, was written.
The Magic Stone of Brisingaman is a book about two children who go to live with an old nanny and mother. There they met the swart alphars. The novel was published in 1960 following the success of The Lord of the Rings. Then Garner began to create the second part of the “Moon on Gomrat Eve”, published in 1963. He planned to write a third book, but did not implement his idea.
Since 1965, Alan Garner has written several more fantasy books. These are "Elidor," "Owls on Plates," and "Red Shift." The last of these books came out in 1973. He then moved away from fantasy as a genre used in his works.
In 1979, Garner completed The Stone Book, which consisted of four short stories. These stories describe a day in the life of four generations of his family. He later noted that this work became the most worthwhile of all his books.
In the 1980s, Alan Garner published a series of rewritten English folk tales. These were such cycles as “The Book of British Tales by Alan Garner”, “Golden Tales” and “Bag of the Moonlights”.