Philip Pullman

''Northern Lights'', the first volume in ''His Dark Materials'', won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the Carnegie's 70th anniversary, it was named in the top ten by a panel tasked with compiling a shortlist for a public vote for an all-time favourite. It won that public vote and was named all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" in June 2007. It was filmed under the book's US title, ''The Golden Compass''. In 2003, ''His Dark Materials'' trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public. Provided by Wikipedia