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In 2011 the award was won jointly by david logan for half sick of shadows and michael logan for apocalypse cow. Pratchett won the british books awards fantasy and science fiction author of the year in the year the year 1989 pratchet won the british science fiction award for his novel pyramid which was followed by best fantasy novel in 2008 for locals award in his books making money. A useful and improving almanack of information including astonishing recipes from terry pratchetts discworld discworld series by terry pratchett feb 26, 2002. Terry pratchett was born in 1948 in beaconsfield, buckinghamshire. Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the english author terry pratchett, set on. Terry pratchetts fantasy classic wyrd sisters, a novel in the discworld series, is the story of granny weatherwax, the most highly regarded nonleader a coven of nonsocial witches could ever have. According to the booksellers pocket yearbook 2005, in 2003 pratchetts uk sales amounted to.
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