When Gaiman won the 2010 Medal himself, he said "it had to be the most important literary award there ever was" and "if you can make yourself aged seven happy, you're really doing well – it's like writing a letter to yourself aged seven." Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was another childhood favourite, and "a favourite forever. I'd think, 'Oh, my gosh, that is so cool! I want to do that! When I become an author, I want to be able to do things in parentheses.' I liked the power of putting things in brackets." Narnia also introduced him to literary awards, specifically the Carnegie Medal, won by the concluding volume in 1956. He later recalled that "I admired his use of parenthetical statements to the reader, where he would just talk to you. For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received C. He later won the school English prize and the school reading prize, enabling him to finally acquire the third volume. Although they only had the first two of the novel's three volumes, Gaiman consistently checked them out and read them. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which he got from his school library. Īnother work that made a particular impression was J. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them-which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it." When he was about ten years old, he read his way through the works of Dennis Wheatley The Ka of Gifford Hillary and The Haunting of Toby Jugg made a special impact on him. Gaiman was able to read at the age of four. I don't know, I think there's probably a 50/50 chance. I would not stand up and beat the drum for the existence of God in this universe. About his personal views, Gaiman has stated, "I think we can say that God exists in the DC Universe. '" Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist, and that like Judaism, Scientology is his family's religion. It would get very confusing when people would ask my religion as a kid. His other sister, Lizzy Calcioli, has said, "Most of our social activities were involved with Scientology or our Jewish family. The Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town one of Gaiman's sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. Gaiman was born on 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. Neil has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy. His father, David Bernard Gaiman, worked in the same chain of stores his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist. Gaiman's grandfather changed his original family name of Chaiman to Gaiman. His great-grandfather emigrated from Antwerp, Belgium, to the UK before 1914 and his grandfather eventually settled in Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores. Gaiman's family is of Polish-Jewish and other Eastern European Jewish origins. It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London. In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). Gaiman has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. In 2023, he starred as the voice of Gef the talking mongoose in the black comedy film Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and the novels Good Omens, Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman ( / ˈ ɡ eɪ m ən/ born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and a screenwriter. From the BBC programme Saturday Live, 12 October 2013.
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