Niiske oli koertega üles kasvanud ja tundis erinevaid tõuge päris hästi, kuid Suterdise juures ei olnud kusagilt alustada. 'Te meeldite talle, härra Lipwig,' tähendas proua Pillav heakskiitvalt.

Jäi mulje, nagu ähvardaks triikimislaud end ise lahti lüüa. Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on 12th March 2015.īent kehitas õlgu - väga muljetavaldav manööver nii kõhna inimese puhul. He was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service. In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).

There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter.

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