“He does the things I wanted to do. I found as I wrote the book he became his own character, but he did start as me.”
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Christopher Paolini
Christopher James Paolini is an American and Italian author. He is best known for The Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon (2002), Eldest (2005), Brisingr (2008), Inheritance (2011), the follow-up short story collection The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm (2018), and Murtagh (2023), the first in a follow-up duology. His first science fiction novel, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, was pu…
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culture · American writer (born 1983) · writer · novelist · science fiction writer · children's writer · also Christopher Paolini, Christopher James Paolini, Paolini
Born 17 November 1983 · Q93620
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2026· 6 entries
“Well, I suppose I won't see you for a while. So farewell, good luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat ear wax, and look on the bright side of life!”
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TennisTemple: Paolini Confirms US Open Return and Surprise Coaching Reunion with Marc Lopez
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Mshale: A Different World Dwayne And Whitley Jasmine Paolini (r0EnDvlGWP)
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Mshale: Sabalenka, Gauff, Keys, And Paolini On Day 6 Of Indian Wells | WTA Match Highlights Soccer Zero Codes (UdhuDMgUM3)
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The Guardian: Rising star Alexandra Eala wins hearts and minds but falls to Jasmine Paolini
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2024· 1 entry
The American Library Association chose Fractal Noise for the Listen List (2024)
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2023· 2 entries
Murtagh was released as the latest installment in Paolini's world of Alagaësia
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“It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school — we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.”
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2022· 3 entries
It was announced that To Sleep in a Sea of Stars has been optioned by Made Up Stories and Snoot Entertainment
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Paolini announced Fractal Noise, the second installment in the Fractalverse and a prequel to To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
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Variety reported that Paolini was co-writing a live action television series adaptation of Eragon for Disney+, with Bert Salke executive producing
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2018· 1 entry
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, the first book in a series called Tales of Alagaësia, was published and released to the public
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2011· 1 entry
In the US, Australia, New Zealand, the EU, and India, and was subsequently translated and published in 53 countries
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2009· 1 entry
Published “QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials” in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter — cited 23,089 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Eragon was published for the first time by Paolini International LLC, his parents' publishing company
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1983· 1 entry
Born 1983-11-17.
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