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![]() ![]() The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006, and became one of the most financially successful Japanese films in history. Her work also found commercial success: in 1992 the BBC adapted her novel Archer’s Goon into a six-part miniseries, and her best-selling Howl’s Moving Castle was made into an animated film by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki in 2004. ![]() Since then, in addition to being translated into more than twenty languages, her books have earned a wide array of honors-including two Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honors-and appeared on countless best-of-the-year lists. ![]() From the very beginning, Diana Wynne Jones’s books garnered literary accolades: her novel Dogsbody was a runner-up for the 1975 Carnegie Medal, and Charmed Life won the esteemed Guardian children’s fiction prize in 1977. Characterized by magic, multiple universes, witches and wizards-and a charismatic nine-lived enchanter-her books were filled with unlimited imagination, dazzling plots, and an effervescent sense of humor that earned her legendary status in the world of fantasy. In a career spanning four decades, award-winning author Diana Wynne Jones wrote more than forty books of fantasy for young readers. ![]()
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