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Morpurgo was born in 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, as Michael Andrew Bridge, the second child of actor Tony Van Bridge and actress Kippe Cammaerts (daughter of the writer and poet Émile Cammaerts). [5] Both RADA graduates, his parents had met when they were acting in the same repertory company in 1938. [6]
Morpurgo said he was inspired to write the novel because of "two strange stories that happened in the same day". [3] He noted how he went on holiday with his wife to Ithaca, and the couple was staying at a house on the beach, and they came to realize that this beach was where, according to legend, Odysseus walked when he came back from the Trojan War.
Michael Morpurgo has won four Overall awards for Kensuke's Kingdom in 2000, Private Peaceful in 2004, Shadow in 2011 and An Eagle in the Snow in 2017. He has also won category awards for The Wreck of the Zanzibar in 1996 and Out of Ashes in 2002.
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King of the Cloud Forests is a children's fantasy and adventure novel written by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in the United Kingdom by Heinemann in 1987. It was released on audiobook in 2007, with Morpurgo providing the narration.
Goetz medal, which Morpurgo refers to, commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania [2]. Morpurgo said the sinking of the Lusitania was what inspired him to write this book. In one instance, he explains that his wife told him a story of when she was around seven-years-old, she had gotten chickenpox, and her family quarantined her in a separate room to avoid infecting other members of the family.
The Butterfly Lion is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in Great Britain by Collins in 1996, and won the 1996 Smarties book prize.The book was adapted into a stage play by Daniel Buckroyd of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, which toured the UK in 2013.
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