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Alan Garner

Garner, Alan

October 17, 1934 (age 91)

Birth place: Congleton, Cheshire, England, UK

23 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
August 1966 146 Review The Weirdstone of Brisingamen New Worlds, August 1966
May 1974 109 Review Red Shift Foundation, #6 May 1974
March 1976 18 Review The Guizer Vector 73 / 74
September 1981 8 Review Elidor Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, September 1981
November 1981 6 Review Elidor Amazing Stories, November 1981
January 1982 17 Review Elidor Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 18, 1982
January 1982 60|60.7 Review Red Shift The Patchin Review, Number Three, January 1982
January 1982 16 Review The Moon of Gomrath Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 18, 1982
January 1982 17 Review The Owl Service Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 18, 1982
January 1982 16 Review The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 18, 1982
February 1982 19 Review Red Shift Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 15, 1982
January 1986 18 Review Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales Fantasy Review, January 1986
April 1987 Review A Bag of Moonshine Vector 137
July 1987 61 Review Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales Fantasy Review, July-August 1987
November 1996 Review Strandloper Vector 190
November 1998 Review The Moon of Gomrath SF Site, Mid-November 1998
November 1998 Review The Weirdstone of Brisingamen SF Site, Mid-November 1998
September 2012 88 Interview The Books Come Looking for Me... SFX, September 2012
October 2012 131|131.1 Review Boneland SFX, October 2012
August 2014 1 Review Boneland The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2014
April 2018 |4 Review The Beauty Things Strange Horizons, 16 April 2018
November 2023 4|4.1 Review Treacle Walker The New York Times Book Review, November 19, 2023
October 2024 15 Review Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life The Daily Telegraph, 12 October 2024

38 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1960 Novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Alan Garner
1961 Novel The Weirdstone Alan Garner
1963 Novel The Moon of Gomrath Alan Garner
1965 Novel Elidor Alan Garner
1967 Chapbook The Old Man of Mow Alan Garner
1967 Novel The Owl Service Alan Garner
1969 Anthology A Cavalcade of Goblins Alan Garner
1969 Anthology The Hamish Hamilton Book of Goblins Alan Garner
1972 Anthology A Book of Goblins Alan Garner
1973 Novel Red Shift Alan Garner
1975 Collection The Guizer: A Book of Fools Alan Garner
1976 Chapbook The Stone Book Alan Garner
1977 Chapbook Granny Reardun Alan Garner
1977 Chapbook Tom Fobble's Day Alan Garner
1978 Chapbook The Aimer Gate Alan Garner
1979 Novel The Three Golden Heads of the Well Alan Garner
1980 Collection Alan Garner's Fairytales of Gold Alan Garner
1980 Collection The Lad of the Gad Alan Garner
1984 Collection Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales Alan Garner
1986 Collection A Bag of Moonshine Alan Garner
1988 Collection The Stone Book Quartet Alan Garner
1992 Chapbook Jack and the Beanstalk Alan Garner
1994 Omnibus The Alan Garner Omnibus: Elidor / The Weirdstone of Brisingamen / The Moon of Gomrath Alan Garner
1996 Novel Strandloper Alan Garner
1997 Novel The Princess and the Golden Mane Alan Garner
1998 Nonfiction The Voice That Thunders: Essays and Lectures Alan Garner
1998 Chapbook The Well of the Wind Alan Garner
2003 Novel Thursbitch Alan Garner
2010 Nonfiction By Seven Firs and Goldenstone: An Account of the Legend of Alderley Alan Garner
2010 Omnibus Essential Modern Classics Fantasy Collection Norton Juster & Alan Garner & T. H. White
2011 Collection Collected Folk Tales Alan Garner
2012 Novel Boneland Alan Garner
2015 Omnibus Alan Garner Classic Collection Alan Garner
2015 Omnibus The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath Alan Garner
2016 Nonfiction The Beauty Things Mark Edmonds & Alan Garner
2018 Nonfiction Where Shall We Run To? Alan Garner
2021 Chapbook Treacle Walker Alan Garner
2024 Nonfiction Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life Alan Garner

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1965 Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal Elidor Nominee
1967 Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal The Owl Service Winner
2013 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel Boneland Nominee
2022 British Fantasy Award Best Novella Treacle Walker Nominee
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Non-Fiction Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life Nominee

Highly Commended for the 1978 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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