About Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
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Awards & Honors
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Nestlé Children's Book Prize
Knight Bachelor
Children's Laureate
Eleanor Farjeon Award
Hampshire Book Awards
Children's Book Award (UK)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
honorary doctorate
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
