Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Terry Pratchett Pratchett drinking Irish stout shortly after receiving an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin, in 2008 a b c d "Terry Pratchett and his Works". Colinsmythe.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017 . Retrieved 4 May 2016. Smyth, Chris (31 December 2008). "Terry Pratchett 'flabbergasted' over knighthood". Times Online. London: Times Newspapers . Retrieved 19 February 2021. Pratchett wrote dialogue for a mod for the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), which added a Nord companion named Vilja. He also worked on a similar mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011), which featured Vilja's great-great-granddaughter. [41] [42] Children's literature [ edit ] Williams, Martin (2 February 2010). "A death worth dying for". The Herald. Archived from the original on 28 June 2010 . Retrieved 2 February 2010.

Interview: Terry Pratchett". Terry Pratchett Books (originally Alternative Nation). 10 October 2005. Archived from the original on 23 November 2010 . Retrieved 12 August 2009. Pratchett won the British Book Awards' "Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year" category in 1994, [151] the British Science Fiction Award in 1989 for his novel Pyramids, [152] and a Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2008 for Making Money. [153] He won the 2001 Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, which recognised The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents as the year's best children's book published in the UK. [154] [155] Night Watch won the 2003 Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel. [156] Four of the five Discworld novels that centre on the trainee witch Tiffany Aching won the annual Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2016. [157] In 2005, Going Postal was shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel; however, Pratchett recused himself, stating that stress over the award would mar his enjoyment of Worldcon. [158] [159] In the same year, A Hat Full of Sky won a Mythopoeic Award. [160] In 2008, Making Money was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. [161] I Shall Wear Midnight [162] won the 2010 Andre Norton Award, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) as a part of the Nebula Award ceremony.

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Wilkins never says so, but one comes away with the impression that Sir Terry Pratchett was deeply hurt by critical disdain. One remark – that the critic would be “surprised if any women wanted to read these” – stands out for its inaccuracy: Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour was the first to serialise two of his early Discworld novels, The Colour of Magic and Equal Rites. Flux, Elizabeth (12 October 2022). "Humorous, harrowing and productive: The world of Terry Pratchett". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 5 April 2023. Pratchett had a tendency to avoid using chapters, arguing in a Book Sense interview that "life does not happen in regular chapters, nor do movies, and Homer did not write in chapters", adding "I'm blessed if I know what function they serve in books for adults". [28] However, there were exceptions; Going Postal and Making Money and several of his books for younger readers are divided into chapters. [27] Pratchett said that he used chapters in the young adult novels because "[his] editor screams until [he] does", but otherwise felt that they were an unnecessary "stopping point" that got in the way of the narrative. [ citation needed] Bradford University awards honorary degree". Telegraph & Argus. 31 July 2009 . Retrieved 31 July 2009.

Interview de Terry Pratchett (en Anglais) (Interview with Terry Pratchett (in English))". Nathalie Ruas, ActuSF. June 2002. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 . Retrieved 19 June 2007. Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . . . it is wonderful to have this closeup picture of the writer's working life.' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Observer Quotes of the week ... They said what?". The Observer. London. 22 February 2009 . Retrieved 15 October 2009.So. I have gone. There were days when I felt I had already gone and so all I wish for now is a cool, quiet room and some peace to gather my addled thoughts. I think I was good, although I could have been better, but Terry Pratchett is dead and there are no more words.

Come join us in celebrating the life of one of the world's greatest fantasy authors with one who knew him personally, Rob Wilkins, author of Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes.Singh, Anita (31 January 2009). "Sir Terry Pratchett documents Alzheimer's battle in BBC film". Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 – via www.telegraph.co.uk. Wilkins is excellent on Pratchett’s early reading habits, and inspirations, but occasionally seems to miss the point of the books. He quotes an interview Roald Dahl gave to a young Pratchett, in which Dahl told him that “the usual underlying [message] any writer tries to get through… is that some people are very nasty and some are very nice. Most people are very nasty, really, when you get down to it.” Wilkins, eager to present this as a baton-passing moment, says Dahl’s comments “would much later become Terry’s own philosophy”. But Pratchett’s books, again and again, reject the idea that people are fundamentally good or bad. “People are fundamentally people,” as he put it in Good Omens, co-written with Neil Gaiman (who interviewed the older Pratchett as a 25-year-old – now there’s your baton moment). An asteroid ( 127005 Pratchett) is named after Pratchett. [169] In 2013, Pratchett was named Humanist of the Year by the British Humanist Association for his campaign to fund research into Alzheimers, his contribution to the right to die public debate and his Humanist values. [170]