Biography
The modern reader is difficult to surprise, because it would seem, everything is said and everything is written. For example, not every year new writers appear every year, who, under the impression of the books of John Tolkina and Roger Zhiby, plunge into the fantastic fantasy world. The pages of their works are filled with fictional witch, magical spells, elves, dwarves and other supernatural things and creatures. However, not all writers describing the magic worlds received the laurels of honor.
England Terry Pratchett is one of those whose books lie on the shelves of avid fiction lovers. He not only told the booklers about the mysterious flat world, but also endowed his works by satire, as well as deep, but unobtrusive philosophy. This author is familiar with the books "Creators of Spells" (1987), "Grim Reaper" (1991), "Masquerade" (1995) and other remarkable works.
Childhood and youth
Terry Pratchett was born on April 28, 1948. The Motherland of the writer is the city of Beconsfield, located in the ceremonial county of Bakinghamshire (United Kingdom). About the parents of Terry information is not enough, it is known that the boy has grown and brought up the only child in the David family and Eiley Pratchett.
Terry began to show love for reading from the earliest childhood, instead of games with friends he shouted books and was fond of studying the universe. The boy collected astronomical liners, which came across in tea of the famous English brand.
Young Pratchet wanted, like Galileo Galileo, to look at the telescope all his life, but to become an astronomer, he lacked mathematical skills, because Terry was a true humanitarian (however, he studied at a school with a technical bias).
Then the young man became interested in science fiction, His works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Herbert Wells, who composed the "Time Machine". It is also known that after graduation, Terry did not continue to nibble science granite. Instead of submitting documents to the university, Pratchett, with the permission of parents, went to free swimming and settled a journalist to the local newspaper Bucks Free Press.
Literature
Terry took over the inkwell and the pen at the thirteen age, then the boy presented to his first story called "Business Rivals" ("The Hades Business"). The young man invented a nontrivial plot, rotating around a man named Cruce, who finds in his apartment devil in a sulfur cloud.
Later, the debut work of Terry was published in the school newspaper, and then printed in the journal Science Fantasy. By the way, "The Hades Business" brought the boy the first money - the publication paid the young talent of £ 14. The next work - "Night Dweller" - saw the light only in 1965.
In the same 1965, Terry becomes a regular correspondent (courses for the preparation of journalists) and continues to test his writer skills on the expanses of Bucks Free Press. The young man invented about eighty stories for children who were printed in the newspaper under the pseudonym "Uncle Jim".
It is worth noting that the early characters of Pratchett are found in the work of "People of Carpet" (1971). By the way, this book came out thanks to Peter Bander Van Duren, director of the publisher, from which Terry took an interview. The journalist was mentioned that he wrote the novel "People of Carpets", and Peter agreed to give this work to life, saying that Pratchett was an indisputable talent.
Next, Terry became the author of two more scientific fiction novels: he composed the "Dark Side of the Sun" (1976) and "Stratus" (1981). The writer recognized that these works were invented by dark winter evenings when he had no other affairs.
In 1982, Terry Pratchett had a failure. Since the young writer had little sales, the NEW English Library publisher refused to cooperate with the writer. The benefit of Terry did not put his hands and did not doubt his talent, continuing to work hard. It is worth saying that later Prathots, according to some data, was the best-selling Writer of the UK of those times.
Soon, thanks to the friend, he began to be published in Corgi's publishing house, thus the book "Color of Magic" (1983), which gave the beginning of the popular "Flat World" cycle, which includes 41 works. Among them are "Creators of Spells" (1987), "Staff and Hat" (1988), "Long sisters" (1988), "Guardi! Guard! " (1989), "To the weapon! To weapons! " (1992), "Masquerade" (1995), etc.
Terry Prachtrat acquired recognition, the glory and the multimylion army of fans, which Diana Pearson helped him, who organized a six-party film on BBC radio, in the program "Woman's Hour". Actions in books from the "Flat World" series occur on a fictional planet that has a disk form. It is noteworthy that Terry did not relieve the laws of Einstein, Newton and Leibnitsa, and invented his own physics.
In his stories in the rainbow - eight colors, the speed of light is of a small meaning, and magic is not something fantastic, but material and ordinary. The cycle is divided into several subciklov, and the main characters are Rinsvind, Lanka Witches, death, Moist von Lipwig and other characters.
Flat world inhabited fabulous creatures. Scrolling the books of Terry, the reader meets with trolls, vampires, elves and even bloodthirsty zombies. Prettyly interesting Pratchett described the magic of Lanka witches who mined the fire, looking at the log: it becomes embarrassing and it burns with shame.
The second work of Terry from this series was the book called the "Mad Star", published in 1986. The plot rotates around the wizard-defendance of Riesvind, who knows only one spell from an octavo book, but does not remember him. Pratchett did not endow the main character with positive qualities, so the cowardly magician appears in trouble.
In 1987, the creative biography of the writer was replenished with the fourth book from the cycle - "Mor, a student of death", which turned out to be a bestseller. Terry spoke about the young man who had nothing to do on the farm of his parent. Therefore, the guy went to the subset, where death itself was his mentor. True, the skeleton in Black Balahon decided to take the day off, so the opportunity to pick up people into the world is different.
By the way, few people know that the science fiction helped Nile Gamean to become a popular writer. The fact is that the author of the "American gods" showed him the drafts of his debut work, and Terry was so impressed with the attempts of a novice writer that he proposed cooperation. So I saw the light of the book "Blagaging Signs" (1990), written by Gamean and Terry Pratchett.
The plot of "good intentions" tells the reader about the angel and the demon who are trying to prevent the apocalypse. The representative of Darkness and the Messenger of Light decided that the end of the world would not lead to anything good, regardless of the outcome of the battle. Therefore, Angel and Demon began to participate in the education of the future Antichrist, which in no case should be bowed to any of the parties.
The book received positive critics reviews, and Alexander Gaginsky noted that this work Prathots made a greater contribution than Geiman.
Personal life
In the life of Terry Pratchet was not only a smiling man, but also an exemplary family man, married to Lin Pratchett. In marriage, the only daughter of Rihanna, who deals with journalism and writes scripts to computer games.
It is also known that Terry adored the tailed animals who worshiped in ancient Egypt. Pratchett even became the author of the humorous book "Cat without embellish" ("Cat without fools", 1989), which is a kind of encyclopedia on behalf of a fictional organization fighting for "real cats", that is, mongrel, naughty and capricious.
Death
In 2007, the media led the information that Terry Pratchett suffers a rare form of Alzheimer's disease (at an early stage). In 2009, it became known that Terry thought about voluntary euthanasia and planned to go to Switzerland, where legal assisted suicide practiced. The paradox lies in the fact that Pratchett often smiled and soaked his books with humor, but many times spoke about voluntary leaving life.
In 2012, the health of Terry went to the decline. A talented person was difficult to write and read, but to distract from the futility of being, he continued to work on works, dictating the proposal to his comrades (sometimes used special speech recognition programs).
Unexpected death saved the genius of literature from terrible sin, religion. Terry died of illness on March 12, 2015. It is noteworthy that in the last minutes of the life of Pratchett managed to write a significant, but concise tweet - "The End". After the death of the writer, his grieving fans came up with a beautiful legend that the hero of his work was supposedly coming for Terry.
Quotes
"A vital ingredient of success is not to know that you have impossible to fulfill you" "" People are interesting creatures. In the world, full miracles, they managed to come up with a boredom "" Hate is the love that turned back "" There is death and there are taxes, only taxes are much worse, because death happens once in life, and taxes - every year "" Chaos is always wins order because it is better organized "Bibliography
- 1983 - "Color of Magic"
- 1986 - "Mad Star"
- 1987 - "Ma, a student of death"
- 1988 - "Long sisters"
- 1989 - "Guardians! Guard! "
- 1990 - "Moving pictures"
- 1991 - "Witches abroad"
- 1992 - "Small Gods"
- 1992 - "Ladies and Lord"
- 1993 - "To the weapon! To weapons! "
- 1994 - "Rock Music"
- 1995 - "Interesting times"
- 1995 - "Masquerade"
- 1996 - "Foots of clay"
- 1996 - "Santa Khryakak"