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Mark haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two baftas. Version by simon stephens, german by barbara christ. Mark haddon on writing stories as complex as the real world. He graduated from oxford university in 1981, returning later to study for an m.
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