Talk:David Almond

Influenced
"Influenced: people around him" I bet we all did influence people around us, but why note Almond did? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slowgaze (talk • contribs) 20:10, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Click
You know David Almond did write the book click. He wrote it with nine other authors. Just saying so you all know. --173.178.93.250 (talk) 17:08, 26 February 2011 (UTC)_


 * Click is a "See also" here. Is it more important than that? It doesn't belong in the brief {infobox} list of notable works.
 * (This article doesn't provide any chronological list of selected works, which is unusual among biographies of contemporary children's writers who have won major awards.) --P64 (talk) 21:51, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

The Guardian coverage
23 Mar 2010 — winner of H.C. Andersen medal

18 Mar 2010 — nominated for H.C. Andersen and A. Lindgren prizes

search 232 hits (this may include many false positives but there seems to be no index for Almond)

--P64 (talk) 02:37, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Date of birth
1951 or 52? Vernon White '''. . . Talk''' 17:19, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * BBC gives 51>  Vernon White  . . . Talk 17:24, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Chronology Error(s)
Text says second novel published in 1987 but then first novel is published in 1999. Glimfeather (talk) 11:55, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Andersen Award sources
The biography includes four references that pertain wholly or mainly to the Hans Christian Andersen Award (now refs# 1-2, 12-13). Two are official, the Awards homepage and the presentation speech by the jury president.
 * 2010 Award #1-2, 13-14 and 2008 Finalist ref #12 --P64 (talk) 19:05, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

These official sources are not cited (and have not been used, i suppose). On the given dates I discovered the source and wrote the formal reference before deciding not to expand the biography in this respect. --P64 (talk) 01:07, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ref name=speech> "Acceptance speech by David Almond". David Almond. 11 September 2010. IBBY. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
 * ref name=ibby-almond> "HCA Award Author Winner 2010". IBBY. Retrieved 2013-07-22. Profile of Almond with two linked interviews, March and August 2010.

February 2015 vandalism needs repair
We need manual repair of apparent vandalism 2015-02-20. --P64 (talk) 23:01, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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