Professor David Almond

 Emeritus Professor 

Personal statement

David Almond is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing. His main focus is on writing for young people. He has written many novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays, with work translated into over forty languages, some widely adapted for stage and screen.

He has received many major awards, including the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbreads, The Eleanor Farjeon Award, le Prix Sorcieres, and the Michael L Printz Award. In 2010 he gained the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world’s most prestigious prize for children’s authors.

_{Photo courtesy of Donna Lisa Healy.}

Academic qualifications

• BA (Hons), English and American Literature - University of East Anglia
• PGCE, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Hon DLitt, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Hon DLitt, University of Sunderland
• Hon DLitt, Newman College, University of Leicester

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Other external roles

• Author and playwright

Areas of expertise

• Creative writing
• Writing for young people
• Novels
• Short stories
• Plays
• Skellig