Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.
In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Aspergers syndrome. Haddon's knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences. His second adult-novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.
Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs's story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.
Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He describes himself as a 'hard-line atheist'. In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said "I am atheist in a very religious mould". His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid.
Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read. --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
差点因为“荣获英国《卫报》最佳儿童小说奖”这句话而错过这样一本触及心灵的佳作,这是我读完《深夜小狗神秘事件》后的第一个想法。实际上,这并不是一本单纯的童书,成年人从书中似乎能收获到更多的感悟。 少年克里斯托弗下决心写一本书,内容是对门希尔斯太太家小狗威灵顿...
评分看《深夜小狗神秘事件》的介绍,似乎是一本少儿推理文学。不过翻开书第一章,就让我纳闷了一下:怎么章节编号是“2”呢?往下翻看,发觉这编号还真有特色,2,3,5,7,11……不是奇数也不是偶数,一拍脑袋,这不都是质数嘛~因此从第一刻起,这本书就留给我一个相当独特的印象。而...
评分关于“我”—— “我的名字叫做克里斯多弗。我知道世界上所有国家的名字,还有它的首都,而且我可以数质数一直数到7057。” 关于“自闭症”—— “自闭症 (autism) 一词最早出现在1911年, 精神医生布鲁勒 (Bleuler) 用来解释成人精神分裂症所表现出对人们和外在世界窄...
评分这本书,如果尚有可取之处,应该是作者老老实实地在用孩子的视角看世界。更显殊为不易的是,用一个自闭症少年数学天才的视角。 成人总是自以为是地为孩子“解说”世界,用自己喜欢的方式“掩饰”真相,有时甚至滥用权威。 慢慢地看,也许会有一些地方让人记起童年某个“神秘...
评分这又是一本难以定论的书,喜欢的人会非常喜欢,不喜欢的人会觉得莫名其妙吧。我是喜欢看的。宣传称此书在销量榜上打败过《哈里波特》,还获得过许多图书奖,虽然可能有夸大的嫌疑,但在我看来还是有理由的。只不过,这样口味特别的书,居然能赢得大众的欢迎,看来大众的口味也...
关于自闭症儿童的故事
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评分刚在旧书店淘到的,很喜欢
评分越看越觉得小男孩很自私,有点同情那位爸爸,但也很无奈。患有自闭症的孩子的却需要更多的关爱。
评分怪不得剧嗲,这书写得真不错
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