About Sir Terry Pratchett
Born: 28 April 1948
Died: 12 March 2015 (66 year old)
Sir Terence David John Pratchett or more widely
known as Terry Pratchett was an English author, mainly of humorous fantasy and science fiction.
When he was 13 years old,
he published his first story called Business Rivals in school magazine The Techincal Cygnet and next year in The Hades
Business. In 1965 he decided to take a job in local newspaper The Bucks Free Press where he weekly wrote children's stories, some of
which
have been later published in his book Dragons at Crumbling Castle. In 1968 he published his
first novel The Carpet People and married his wife Lyn, with whom he had his daughter Rhianna in 1976.
Terry Pratchett was interested in astronomy since childhood and had an amateur observatory in his garden. Pratchett wrote on computer as
soon as they were accessible to him and later also contributed to Usenet group alt.fan.prachett. In 1995 in interview with Bill Gates
he expressed concern about the spread and difficulty to distinguis misinformation on the internet. He also played video games and
collaborated in creation of game adaptations of his books.
During his career Terry Pratchett wrote many books and novels mostly satiric
fantasy, science fiction and some satirical children novels. Terry Pratchett is mostly known for his fantasy Discworld series which is set in imaginary circulary
flat world which sits on 4 elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle. He also collaborated on some books and series like the
science-fiction The Long Earth
with Stephen Baxter.
Terry Prachett got many awards for writing. Some of which have been given by the Brittish crown - the "Sir" title for "services
to literature" and the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He also won many literature awards like the British Science Fiction Award
and World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and many more.
In 2007 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, but he did not stop writing and
published books after his diagnosis. He donated $1 000 000 to Alzheimer research and awarness. The book The Shepperd's Crown was published poshumonously.
