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Terence David John Pratchett known as Terry Pratchett is a British writer , born the April 28th 1948 with Beaconsfield (Buckinghamshire). Its fans often call it Pterry .

Biography

The first work of Terry Pratchett was a news: The Hades Business , published in the magazine of its school when it was 13 years old. It brought back 14£ to him when it was republished in 1961 in the magazine Science Fantasy . It published then Night Dweller in November 1965 in number 156 of New Worlds.

After one year of higher learning in Art, History and English, it decided to give up and to try its chance in journalism and in 1965, it was employed in the local newspaper Bucks Free Close : “I started work one morning and saw my first body three hours later, “one-tea-job training” meaning something in those days. ” (“I started to work one morning and I saw my first corpse three hours later, “to learn on the heap” at the time meant something”). Beside that, it took courses of journalism and followed an English teaching.

It is during this use of journalist whom it was sent to interview Peter Bander Van Duren in connection with a new book that it published. Van Duren was deputy manager of a small house of edition with Gerrards Cross (Buckinghamshire): Hake Smythe Limited. Pratchett had suddenly mentioned the fact that itself had written a novel, the People of the Carpet ( The Carpet People ). The novel was of course published.

In 1970 it left Bucks Free Close to work with the Western Daily Close , before returning to the first in 1972 in quality of assistant of drafting. It once again changed newspaper into 1973, this time for the Bath Chronicle . In 1980, it became in charge of the public relations for the Central Electricity Generating Board (office for energy) in a zone which recovered several nuclear plants; he joked later on this subject by explaining why he had chosen the moment perfectly since shortly after there was the nuclear accident of Three Mile Island with the the United States.

He gave up his work with the CEGB in 1987 when he had realized that he obtained incomes several times higher of his occasional publications. From there, it much more often published and wrote two books typically per annum.

It accepted the Order of the British Empire in 1998 for services rendered to the literature, which it off commented on by saying “I suspect the “services to literature” consisted refraining from trying to Write any. ” (“I suspect that these services rendered to the literature consisted in retaining me to write some”).

Today Terry Pratchett lives in the Wiltshire with his Lyn wife.

Works

Annals of the Disc-world

See also: Disc-world

It is about its most known series. Annals of the Disc-world, presents a universe of fantasy burlesque and parodic, where the action proceeds on a world in the shape of disc, supported by four elephants resting themselves on the back of the giant tortoise A' Tuin which travels without end through cosmos.

Annals of the Disc-world parody many fields: Science fiction, Fantasy, Literature (parts of Shakespeare or detective novels for example), films of Ingmar Bergman, the existing countries (the Australia, the China, the old Egypt, the the Caribbean), of the inventions of XXème century (the Rock' Roll, the Cinema), the Religion, the Philosophy, the Monarchy, and many other things still. But more than one parody, the Disc-world is " World and mirror of the mondes" , like says it Terry Pratchett itself. I.e. the author, through the burlesques adventures of his characters, questions the reader on the real-world: the place of the woman, capacity of the weapons, the effect of success, importance of the press, the religion…

A complete and detailed bibliography of this universe is available to the article Disc-world.

Other works

Collaborations

Others that Romance

Anecdotes

  • the scenario writer Terry Gilliam has the cinematographic rights of the novel Of goods predict ( Good Omens ), and seriously planned to adapt it, which will never arrive in fact because this last will fall through in the form of scenario in 2001.
  • Terry Pratchett often took part in the discussion forums which are devoted to him on Usenet: alt.books.pratchett and alt.fan.pratchett .
  • According to a survey published in 2006 in the British literary magazine " Book Magazine" , Terry Pratchett would be, after J.K. Rowling, the second author living more appreciated its compatriots.
  • the terms Ogg and Vorbis (formats of multimedia contents) correspond to names of characters created by Terry Pratchett in its universe Disc-world. Ogg comes from the character Nounou Ogg ( Nany Ogg ), a witch - amatrice of drinking bout and… men! - and which appears for the first time in the eighth girl ( Equal Rites ). As for Vorbis, the name comes from another character, the Vorbis deacon in the small gods ( Small Gods ).
  • In 1998, Patrick Couton (FRA) accepted for the whole of the Annales Disc-World (since 1983), the price of translation of the Grand Prix of Imaginary the.

French bonds

  • French-speaking Pratchett Club (Remade to nine recently)
  • the undergrounds of Via Cloaca (site of fans)
  • It is what the Disc-world of Terry Pratchett?
  • nonofficial French-speaking Site (more updated since the beginning of 2004)
  • Site of the " Secret guild of the Rapporteurs of the Mystical Knowledge and Occulte" (site of fans) (more updated since the end of 2004; comprise in particular a translation of the Annotated Pratchett Files )
  • Annals of the Disc-World

English bonds

  • L-Space
  • Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board
  • the '' Annotated Pratchett Files '' (list and explanations of the many references present in the novels of Terry Pratchett)

Simple: Terry Pratchett

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