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#65 - Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd
#65 - Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd
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48 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2019
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Podcast episode
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This episode originally aired in 2017.Neil Gaiman is an author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in psychiatric hospitals.Click here to view the painting discussed in this episode.Producer: Dan Morelle For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
May 14, 2019
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Podcast episode
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