Editing Alan Garner (section)

==Recognition and legacy==

[[File:The Medicine House.JPG|thumb|right|The Medicine House, an Early Modern building that was moved to Blackden by Garner.]]

In a paper published in the ''[[Children's Literature Association Quarterly]]'', Maria Nikolajeva characterised Garner as "one of the most controversial" authors of modern children's literature.{{sfn|Nikolajeva|1989|p=128}}

In the fiftieth anniversary edition of ''The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'', published by [[HarperCollins]] in 2010, several notable British fantasists praised Garner and his work. [[Susan Cooper]] wrote that "The power and range of Alan Garner's astounding talent has grown with every book he's written", and [[David Almond]] called him one of Britain's "greatest writers" whose works "really matter".{{sfnm|1a1=Pullman|1a2=Gaiman|1a3=Cooper|1a4=Nix|1y=2010|1p=2}} [[Philip Pullman]], the author of the ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' trilogy, went further:

<blockquote>Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]], and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names. But that's the way with us: our greatest prophets go unnoticed by the politicians and the owners of media empires. I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration.{{sfnm|1a1=Pullman|1a2=Gaiman|1a3=Cooper|1a4=Nix|1y=2010|1p=1}}

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Another British fantasy writer, [[Neil Gaiman]], claimed that "Garner's fiction is something special" in that it was "smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth."{{sfnm|1a1=Pullman|1a2=Gaiman|1a3=Cooper|1a4=Nix|1y=2010|1p=1}} Praise also came from Nick Lake, the editorial director of [[HarperCollins]] Children's Books, who proclaimed that "Garner is, quite simply, one of the greatest and most influential writers this country has ever produced."{{sfn|Lake|2010|pp=315–316}} [[Emma Donoghue]] recalls reading ''[[Red Shift (novel)|Red Shift]]'' as a teenager: "It looked like other Garners I had read: a children's fantasy. But ''Red Shift'', with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to my core every time I read it, and still does... Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Donoghue |first=Emma |date=January 28, 2011 |title=Book Of A Lifetime: Red Shift, By Alan Garner |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-red-shift-by-alan-garner-2196201.html}}</ref>

===Awards===

The biennial [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]] conferred by the [[International Board on Books for Young People]] is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Garner was the sole runner-up for the writing award in 1978.<ref name=andersen>[http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273 "Hans Christian Andersen Awards"]. [[International Board on Books for Young People]] (IBBY). Retrieved 29 July 2013.</ref><ref name=ibby-nominee>[https://archive.today/20130114185952/http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=14769&viewmode=fullscreen&scale=3.33&rotate=&page=105 "Candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 1956–2002"]. ''The Hans Christian Andersen Awards, 1956–2002''. IBBY. [[Gyldendal]]. 2002. Pages 110–18. Hosted by [[Austrian Literature Online]] (literature.at). Retrieved 29 July 2013.</ref>

Garner was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) for services to literature in the 2001 [[British honours system|New Year's Honours list]]. He received the [[British Fantasy Society]]'s occasional [[British Fantasy Awards|Karl Edward Wagner Award]] in 2003 and the [[World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement]] in 2012.<ref>[http://www.sfadb.com/Alan_Garner "Alan Garner"]. Science Fiction Awards Database (sfadb.com). Mark R. Kelly and the [[Locus Science Fiction Foundation]]. Retrieved 29 July 2013.</ref> In January 2011, the [[University of Warwick]] awarded the degree of [[Doctor of Letters]] ([[honoris causa]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/warwick_awards_honorary/|title=Warwick awards honorary degree to acclaimed Cheshire author Alan Garner |work=News & Events |publisher=University of Warwick |date=21 January 2011 |access-date=25 January 2011}}</ref> On that occasion he gave a half-hour interview about his work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/writingprog/archive/writers/garneralan/200111|title=Alan Garner – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen |work= Writers at Warwick Archive |publisher=University of Warwick |date=20 January 2011 |access-date=13 July 2012}}</ref> He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Salford (2011) and the University of Huddersfield in (2012). 

He has been recognised several times for particular works.
* ''[[The Owl Service]]'' (1967) won both the [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]]<ref name="medal1967">[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=91 (Carnegie Winner 1967)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106194213/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=91|date=6 January 2013}}. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. [[CILIP]]. Retrieved 11 July 2012.</ref> and the [[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize]],<ref name="relaunch">[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners"]. ''The Guardian'' 12 March 2001. Retrieved 2 August 2012.</ref> For the 70th anniversary of the Carnegie in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.<ref name="topten">[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/celebration/top_tens.php?action=list "70 Years Celebration: Anniversary Top Tens"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027022418/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/celebration/top_tens.php?action=list|date=27 October 2016}}. The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. CILIP. Retrieved 11 July 2012.</ref>
* ''[[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen]]'' (1960) was named to the [[Lewis Carroll Shelf Award]] list by the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education]] in 1970, denoting that it "belongs on the same shelf" with the 1865 classic ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' and its sequel.
* ''[[The Stone Book]]'' (1976), first in the Stone Book series,<ref name="isfdb-stonebook">[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?12025 Stone Book series]. [[The Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]. Retrieved 11 July 2012.</ref> won the 1996 [[Phoenix Award]] as the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.<ref>[http://www.childlitassn.org/images/resources/resources-Children-squo-s_Lit_-_Phoenix_Award_Brochure_2012.pdf "Phoenix Award Brochure 2012"]{{dead link|date=June 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}. [[Children's Literature Association]]. Retrieved 12 December 2012.<br /> See also the current homepage [http://www.childlitassn.org/index.php?page=about&family=awards&category=06--Phoenix_Award&display=27 "Phoenix Award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320175700/http://www.childlitassn.org/index.php?page=about&family=awards&category=06--Phoenix_Award&display=27|date=20 March 2012}}.</ref>
* The 1981 film ''Images'' won First Prize at the [[Chicago International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |title="Alan Garner", ''Guardian'' 22 July 2008 |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=22 July 2008 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/13/alan.garner}}</ref>
* ''Treacle Walker'' was shortlisted for the [[2022 Booker Prize]], making Garner the oldest writer nominated at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Booker Prize 2022 {{!}} The Booker Prizes |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2022 |access-date=2022-10-05 |website=thebookerprizes.com |language=en}}</ref>