Biography of Patrick Nessa

Patrick ExcelSior Ness was born on October 17 on the American military base of Fort Belvoir Fort Belvoir near the city of Alexandria, Virginia. His father served in the US Army, was a sergeant instructor for drill training. Four months after the birth of Patrick, the family moved to Hawaii. There, Nessa lived for six years, then his father was again transferred to a new place of service, and the next 10 years Patrick lived in a suburb of Washington.

Patrick Ness attended an ordinary public school. An exception was the third grade when Patrick studied at the private Protestant school "Emmanuel Holiness Academy". This period had a serious impact on the formation of Ness's personality: in his own words, “awareness of duty and the urgent need to complete the work of his life before the end of the world begins” became his second nature.

I hear how the clock is ticking, and I worry that I do little, I am not enough enough. This is good for business, but bad for ordinary life: I do not know how to relax. Patrick Ness in childhood Patrick wanted to become a doctor for quite some time - solely because he was greatly impressed by the medical drama “St. But by a teenager Patrick Ness, seriously carried away by literature and writing, dreamed of something else: to publish at least one book and hold it in his hands.

After school, Ness entered Los Angeles University of South California University of Southern California, where he studied English literature. After graduating from the university, he worked as a technical writer in one of the American cable television companies. His official duties included writing technical manuals, advertising texts and speeches for high officials of the company.

In the year, Ness moved to the UK. At this point, he worked on his first novel - The Crash of Hennington; The book was published in the London publishing house "Flamingo" in the year. A year later, in the same publishing house I saw the collection “Topics ABOUT WHICH I KNOWTHING”, which included one early story Ness and several more stories written in the period from to year.

Both the novel and the stories demonstrate Ness's tendency to fantastic and absurd. Thus, the place of action of the novel “The Crash of Hennington” is a seaside town, along the streets of which a herd of rhinos roams so long that it has become a local attraction, and in the stories the author seems to revel in absurdity, illogical and outright stupidity, prosperous in our world.

In the United Kingdom, Ness for a number of years taught writerical skills, including at Oxford University, and also wrote reviews of significant literary innovations for such British periodicals as “The Daily Telegraph”, “The TLS”, “The Sunday Telegraph” and “The Guardian ". The first artistic works and literary and critical works of Ness were addressed to an adult reader, but his most serious achievements are associated with literature for adolescents and youth.

In these novels, the features of Ness’s creative manner were fully manifested: clarity and lyricism of the language, original, rapidly developing plots, acute dialogs and paradoxical humor. And of course, Ness pays great attention to the problems that concern the teenage and youth audience: first love and personal identity; search for mutual understanding and your place in the world; self -affirmation, including through the conflict; difficult moral choice and responsibility for the decision.

As a result, in the books of Nessa there are cruelty and violence, but no more than in real life. In the year, Ness published a novel for teenagers “The Take of Chaos” “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, which has become the first book of the very famous antiopian trilogy “Chaos’s Exhibition” “Chaos Walking”. The second and third books went out of the press with the minimum time interval: “Question and answer” “The Ask and the Answer” - in the year, “The War of Chaos” “Monsters of Men” - in metro, the result is constant information and emotional overload, mutual suspicion and aggression, because everyone knows everything about his neighbor, his dreams and weaknesses, which may be him.

control. The hero of the book of Todd, perhaps the last person born on this planet, in the first novel of the trilogy for almost 13 years. With each book, he grows up, looking for answers to questions with the reader: how to live in a world, where is there too much information? How to prevent fear to lead the actions of a person? Can personal be more important than public?

How to gain power in the face of injustice and maintain kindness, confront evil? Is the murder always justified? And revenge? .. True is complex, and you can not always give unambiguous answers. The trilogy liked both readers and criticism, she described novels as a collection of exciting, rapid stories in which brilliant ideas serve as an excellent plot and strong characters.

Ness also wrote three stories, the action of which takes place in the world "Chaos Walking".Despite the high awards of the Chaos Tail trilogy, the most famous work of Patrick Ness is the novel for teenagers “The Voice of the Monster” “A Monster Calls”. It is based on the ideas of the famous British writer Shivan Doud Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer in the year. When the publisher suggested to the Ness to complete the book begun, he agreed with one condition: he is given complete freedom of creativity.

At the same time, Ness always emphasizes that he accepted the baton with a really great writer. The novel went out of print in the year with illustrations of the young British artist Jim Kay Jim Kay. The action takes place in modern England, the hero is a summer boy whose life cannot be called good or at least calm: the school has problems, his father left the family, his grandmother pulled away from everyone, but the main thing is the incurable disease of her mother.

Going to the window, Conor saw a huge humanoid figure, as if woven from Tisa branches. The green monster is ready to tell Konor three absolutely true stories, and he should honestly tell about his most important desire, otherwise the monster will kill him ... Why did the green man come to Conor, which the boy is equally afraid and wants, the reader will recognize at the end of the book, and before there will be three terrible stories-accusations.

The dramatic narrative of how Conor is trying to realize and accept the disease and inevitable death of his mother, caused an ambiguous reaction in British society. Some said that even adults are difficult to cope with the tragedy, and adolescents, all the more, should not prematurely burden the experiences of irreparable loss. Others argued that today, when, according to statistics, every second cancer falls in cancer during life and the probability of a clash with the traumatic situation is extremely high, it is very important to provide adolescents with the opportunity to survive it indirectly.

A good book contributes to the process of moral healing, and the first thing to do is tell the truth - to yourself and others. The novel "The Voice of the Monster" was widely recognized. Philip Pulman called the narrative irresistible, strong and impressive, and Kei's graphics with a powerful work of art. Working on illustrations for the novel, Kay applied a new technique for himself, making drawings similar to the frames of the film or episodes of the theater production.

The book was awarded several awards. Samarina, A. readers and criticism with interest met these works, mostly having an open finale. A small novel for senior teenagers Release in the year was nominated for the Carnegie medal. The anti -utopia “and the sky was the ocean” “And the Ocean Was Oour Sky” is curious in that it is a kind of allusion to the novel by the classic of American literature in the inverted reality, created by Ness as a fantasy of Dick, whales tissue tissue and sew clothes, control ships, charge harpoons - and kill people.

This is the answer of the races of whales to the endless aggression of a person. Whales believe in prophecy and omen, and therefore an unexpected find in the wreckage of a broken ship means one thing: the whales have to go in search of a legendary monster, ruthlessly destroying their family. Virsavia, a young hunter from the illustrious underwater ship "Alexander", tells an amazing story.

Patrick Ness is known not only as a writer, but also as a screenwriter. He created scenarios for the film adaptations of the Monster Voice, the premiere of the film took place in the year, the first book of the Chaos Thau trilogy was released in the year and the adventure novel “Burn” was shown by the first episode of the future television series Burn in the year. In addition, Ness became the author of the idea, the screenwriter and executive producer of the eight-part television series Class, the spin-off of Dr.

Who was released in the year. In the summer of the year, Ness began to work on the script of the prequel for the film “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”, which takes place during the Napoleonic wars, and the heroes are British military sailors. Ness wrote scripts for the adaptations of the works of other authors. He created the script for the “lord of flies” by W.

Golding for a new film adaptation of the classic novel, which intends to implement the American concern “Warner Bros. Together with V. Broshol and O. Masters and T. Film on the book V. Broshol was released in the year, release of the picture on the comic book O. Masters and T. Jenkins “Snow Blind” is scheduled for th. The works of Patrick Nessa are translated into the main European languages.

On the year Patrick Ness lives in London. He gives an interview, meets with readers and, of course, writes a lot. Not all books of Ness, in the depths of the plan, the study of ideas and the quality of the text, are comparable to his best works of the “Chaos of Chaos” trilogy and the novel “Voice of the bridge”, but, as Ness said, life is complex and unpredictable, and “We must tell stories about it, otherwise we could not live in it”.

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