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As we reported earlier, the winners of the 2007 Locus Awards were announced June 16, in Seattle. Locus magazine readers, we’re proud to say, voted Wintersmith (third in the Tiffany Aching series) the best Young Adult Book. This is Terry Pratchett’s third award in the same category, as both of Wintersmith’s prequels received the same honor. Pratchett beat out two other well-known children’s fantasy authors, Garth Nix and Ursula K. Le Guin for the award.
At the BAFTA Television awards three days ago, the Hogfather team was honored with a second prestigious award. Beating out Dispatches – War Torn: Stories of Separation, Meltdown and the Big Climate Change Experiment, and The Secret Policeman’s Ball, the Terry Pratchett adaptation won the Best Interactivity BAFTA award. Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown, and Ian Sharples were recognized especially. Congrats to them and the entire Hogfather team!
Adelaide Now released a new article on Terry Pratchett and his books, with several insights into Terry Pratchett's "gentle satire" and his attitude toward Australia. The article also puts an interesting new perspective on Ankh-Morpork, calling it a parody of “Oliver Twist’s London.” To quote the article:
The city, which is a sort of parody of Oliver Twist's London with the addition of trolls, dwarfs, zombies, werewolves, scientific wizards, an orang-utan and Death, gives the humanist social observer in Pratchett the room to roam and to comment on modern life without actually pointing a finger or causing offence.
"If you can accept the fact that the trolls and dwarfs and fairies and all the other creatures of mythology are actually real and are, along with the people, in a sort of Dickens' London, all grubbing away trying to make a dollar, then you can understand Discworld," he says of his creation. And although the characters and situations in his books might not exactly be the everyday type, the resolutions are always well considered and, well, human.
"While it sounds like a huge heap of undirected fantasy, you can do so many things with it," he says. "Like, you can look at race relations, but because it's between trolls and dwarfs you can have that bit of distance - it draws the sting. However, the logic has to work.
"None of that, 'Ho, landlord, a pint of your finest ale!' " he mimics, raising his own bottle to emphasise the point.
The article also includes a small bit of Wintersmith for those fans who haven’t read it yet.
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The Broadcasting Press Guild, “an association of journalists who specialise in writing and broadcasting about television, radio and the media” according to the site, announced their 33rd annual awards with Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather the recipient of the “Multichannel Award.” Previous winners of this award include Balaclava (Cromwell Productions for The History Channel) in 2001, Freestyler (MTV Base) in 2002, and Reporters At War: Dying To Tell The Story (Discovery Channel) in 2005.
