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Skellig, the story of two children who meet a strange being, part owl, part angel, was David Almond’s debut novel. Published in 1998 it won the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Children’s Book Award (then the Whitbread Prize). Almond is now firmly established as one of the finest writers for young people and was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, known as the Nobel Prize for children’s literature, in 2010. Hear him talk about his work with Erica Wagner, former literary editor of The Times.