Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
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- London
- Educated at
- King's College LondonRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst
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- 🏆 Nestlé Children's Book Prize
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1943
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