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Andy Mulligan is an English writer best known for young-adult fiction. His work is strongly influenced by his experiences working as a volunteer in Calcutta, India, and as an English and drama teacher in Brazil, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the UK.〔 Even though he is British, he was born in India, when his parents were travelling. ==Career== Mulligan's first novel, ''Ribblestrop'', was published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. The story originated "on a walk with a fellow teacher"; they talked about they might turn a particular "ramshackle stately home ... into a thoroughly inappropriate school" (quoting the newspaper).〔 His second novel, ''Trash'' (late 2010), took place in 2010 and featured a street child who lives as a waste picker. Judges named it to the shortlist for one of the annual Blue Peter Book Awards, sponsored by a BBC TV show for children ages 6 to 12, but were overruled "because it contains scenes of violence and swearing that are not suitable for the younger end of our audience." Publisher David Fickling stated that "Poor children live a very unpleasant life and to avoid that would be untruthful, and I don't think one should be untruthful to children. You can't make life wonderfully safe and middle-class all over the world."〔 More than a year later the professional librarians named it to the shortlist for their annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best British children's book.〔 A film adaptation of ''Trash'' by Working Title Films and PeaPie Films is in development. ''Return to Ribblestrop'' (2011) was the first of two Ribblestrop sequels. Mulligan won the 2011 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.〔〔 "It is so fresh: the judges loved its anarchy, its good humour, its warm heart and the way it depicted children," according to committee chair Julia Eccleshare, children's book editor at ''The Guardian''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andy Mulligan (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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