Who wrote the bestseller 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time'?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". Haddon and "The Curious Incident" won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children. The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time think, of "The Waves". An author whom I love actually, but who sometimes got a little too carried away." The book was joint winner of the 2004 Boeke Prize, won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award and sold more than two million copies. Haddon also was one of the winners of the 2004 Alex Awards, which "honor the 10 top adult books with appeal for adolescents." As well as winning the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Haddon earned the Book Trust teenage fiction award. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was also long-listed for the Man