“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
—The Sandman, A Game Of You

Neil Gaiman (1960-) is a contemporary British writer of stories. Of all known kinds.

He’s especially famous for his Urban Fantasy works, including the renowned The Sandman comic series, which was the first (and only) work in its medium to win a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. Two of his novels, Stardust and Coraline, have been made into movies. He’s also written scripts for other projects, such as MirrorMask by Dave Mc Kean and the Neverwhere TV series. In addition, he worked on the translated script of Princess Mononoke. Most recently, his young adult work The Graveyard Book became the first book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.

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