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David Almond was born on 15 May and is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from , each one receiving critical acclaim. David Almond is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award. David Almond's father was an office manager in an engineering factory and his mother a shorthand typist.

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David Almond returned to Newcastle and worked as a part-time special-needs teacher while editing the literary journal Panurge. David Almond then wrote a series of stories which drew on his own childhood, and which would eventually be published as Counting Stars, published by Hodder in David Almond won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his writing, which biennially recognises the "lasting contribution" of one living author.

David Almond published his first collection of stories in , Sleepless Nights. David Almond's works are highly philosophical and thus appeal to children and adults alike.