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About the author Neil Gaiman is an English fantast writer, the author of graphic novels and comics, scripts for films, laureate of the prizes “Hugo” and “Necule”. Neil Richard Gaiman was born on November 10 in Portsmouth, Hampshire County. His grandfather and father owned a chain of grocery stores, and his mother worked as a pharmacist. Neil learned to read early, he barely turned 4 years old, and immediately became an avid book lover.

In the library, he could remain for hours, and at family celebrations he preferred to read, hiding under the table. The future writer preferred collections of myths and legends, was fond of science fiction, fantasy and horror literature. His other passion was comics. At school, Gaiman studied perfectly - in many ways because he read textbooks even before they started their study in the classroom.

Neil Gaiman: The future writer graduated from the year to success in the year, but did not go to the university, but immediately began to work as a journalist. For long seven years, his reviews and interviews went mainly in print; Finally, his first story was published in the year, and soon the first book was a biography of the popular Duran Duran group. However, the first tangible success in the book business brought him comics.

In the year, the Detective Comics Publishing House began work on a series of graphic novels “Sand Man”. Gaiman was the author of texts for drawings. The series was of great popularity in both children and adults. In the year, the Sand Man was awarded a prestigious literary award - the World Fantasy Prize. Critics noted the high level of the literary basis of the “sand man” and called it a comic book for intellectuals.

Gaiman created a whole universe in which our world and the world of the heroes of comics - pagan, biblical and modern gods were incredibly intertwined. Comics were published up to a year, 75 issues were released in total. Neil Gaiman also worked on other comics, but gained wide fame as the author of the Sand Man. In the year, the work “Good signs” was published - the first novel by Gaiman, written in collaboration with the famous English writer Terry Pratchett.

A book, sustained in a thin manner of English humor, tells about an angel and a demon trying to prevent a biblical apocalypse. The first large literary work of the author became a bestseller and was nominated for the World Fantasy Prize and the Locus journal. Next, two more books were published - “Avverier” and “Star dust”, but “American gods” published in the year remain the main novel of Gaiman to this day.

A work about the battle of the old -Soviet gods with the new deities of the TV and the Internet immediately earned the recognition of critics and was awarded several prestigious awards, including the Hugo and Nebulus awards. Other books of Gaiman became noticeable events in literary life: “Coraline”;.