David Fickling is an
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children's book editor and publisher based in Oxford. Fickling runs David Fickling Books, which became an independent publishing house in July 2013. He has published books by authors including
Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy '' His Dark Materials'' and '' The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ'', a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, ''T ...
,
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Wr ...
,
John Boyne
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and
Linda Newbery
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.
He began his career at the
Oxford University Press
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, and later worked at
Transworld and
Scholastic, before setting up
David Fickling Books in 2000, first as an imprint with Scholastic then under
Random House
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.
It has since become an independent publishing house, working in partnership with larger publishers.
In 2004, David won the British Book Awards Editor of the Year.
Fickling also runs David Fickling Comics, which publishes The Phoenix comic, a story comic for children containing no advertising and all original artwork, a reincarnation of The DFC which ceased publishing on 27 March 2009.
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External links
Company websiteThe Phoenix Comic
Year of birth missing (living people)
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David Fickling Comics
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