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His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials
is an
epic
trilogy
of
fantasy novels
by
Philip Pullman
consisting of
Northern Lights
(1995, published as
The Golden Compass
in North America),
The Subtle Knife
(1997), and
The Amber Spyglass
(2000). It follows the
coming of age
of two children,
Lyra Belacqua
and
Will Parry
, as they wander through a series of
parallel universes
. The three novels have won a number of awards, most notably the 2001
Whitbread Book of the Year
prize, won by
The Amber Spyglass
.
Northern Lights
won the
Carnegie Medal
for children's fiction in the UK in 1995. The trilogy took third place in the BBC's
Big Read
poll in 2003.
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