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Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually described as fantasy, her work also incorporates science fiction themes like time travel and parallel universes, and elements of realism. Some of her best-known works are the Chrestomanci heptalogy, the D…
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culture · British writer (1934–2011) · writer · children's writer · novelist · science fiction writer · poet · also Diana Wynne Jones, Diana Gwyneth Jones, Jones
Born 16 August 1934 · Died 26 March 2011 · Q236829
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2026· 3 entries
“I had a mitherable childhood. Nobody loved me. I think I have a right to try again, looking pwettier, don't you?”
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“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones
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2020· 2 entries
Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 37,013 times.
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Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,494 times.
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2016· 3 entries
The Guardian: Books to give you hope: Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,755 times.
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Published “Enrichr: a comprehensive gene set enrichment analysis web server 2016 update” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 10,518 times.
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2015· 2 entries
The Guardian: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones – fantastical fun, fantastically human
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,882 times.
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2014· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Islands of Chaldea by Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones – review
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“other things were coming to light ... She left behind a mass of stuff,”
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2013· 2 entries
The Guardian: Vile Visitors by Diana Wynne Jones - review
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The Guardian: Diana Wynne Jones's final book completed by sister
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2011· 1 entry
Died 2011-03-26.
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Published “The plant immune system” in Nature — cited 11,732 times.
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2005· 2 entries
With the voice of Howl performed by Christian Bale
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Published “Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas” in International Journal of Climatology — cited 16,674 times.
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2004· 2 entries
That it had "seemed like every month, we would hear that yet another small island or tiny country had been granted independence
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Hayao Miyazaki made the Japanese-language animated movie Howl's Moving Castle, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,383 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,648 times.
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature for Dark Lord of Derkholm (1999).
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Awarded British Fantasy Awards (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts” in Science — cited 12,846 times.
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Mythopoeic Awards for The Crown of Dalemark (1996).
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Awarded Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature for The Crown of Dalemark (1996).
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For The Crown of Dalemark (concluding that series) and in 1999 for Dark Lord of Derkholm; in four other years she was a finalist for the annual literary award by the Mythopoeic Society
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1991· 1 entry
Published “Improved methods for building protein models in electron density maps and the location of errors in these models” in Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography — cited 10,490 times.
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1982· 1 entry
“I think that she [Rowling] read my books as a young person and remembered lots of stuff; there are so many striking similarities.”
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Zilveren Griffel (1981).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for Charmed Life (1978).
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1965· 1 entry
When Rhodesia declared independence unilaterally (one of the last colonies and not tiny), "I felt as if the book were coming true as I wrote it
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1957· 1 entry
The couple returned to Oxford, where they stayed until moving to Bristol in 1976
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at St Anne's College (1953–1956).
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1943· 1 entry
Her family finally settled in Thaxted, Essex, where her parents worked running an educational conference centre
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-08-16.
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