The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass.
The trilogy has also been compared with such fantasy books as Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. ==Awards and recognition== The first volume, Northern Lights, won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995.
The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass.
The Amber Spyglass won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, the first time that such an award has been bestowed on a book from their "children's literature" category. The trilogy came third in the 2003 BBC's Big Read, a national poll of viewers' favourite books, after The Lord of the Rings and Pride and Prejudice.
Pullman said of Donohue's call for a boycott, "Why don't we trust readers? [...] Oh, it causes me to shake my head with sorrow that such nitwits could be loose in the world". In a November 2002 interview, Pullman was asked to respond to the Catholic Herald calling his books "the stuff of nightmares" and "worthy of the bonfire".
In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll. Although His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction, Pullman wrote with no target audience in mind.
The trilogy has attracted controversy for its criticism of religion. The London Royal National Theatre staged a two-part adaptation of the trilogy in 2003–2004.
The Amber Spyglass won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, the first time that such an award has been bestowed on a book from their "children's literature" category. The trilogy came third in the 2003 BBC's Big Read, a national poll of viewers' favourite books, after The Lord of the Rings and Pride and Prejudice.
It was first broadcast in 2003, and re-broadcast in both 2008-9 and in 2017, and was and released by the BBC on CD and cassette.
Cast included Terence Stamp as Lord Asriel and Lulu Popplewell as Lyra. Also in 2003 a radio dramatisation of Northern Lights was made by RTÉ, (Irish public radio). ===Theatre=== Nicholas Hytner directed a theatrical version of the books as a two-part, six-hour performance for London's Royal National Theatre in December 2003, running until March 2004.
Cast included Terence Stamp as Lord Asriel and Lulu Popplewell as Lyra. Also in 2003 a radio dramatisation of Northern Lights was made by RTÉ, (Irish public radio). ===Theatre=== Nicholas Hytner directed a theatrical version of the books as a two-part, six-hour performance for London's Royal National Theatre in December 2003, running until March 2004.
The play was enormously successful and was revived (with a different cast and a revised script) for a second run between November 2004 and April 2005.
At the time, only His Dark Materials and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire amongst the top five works lacked a screen adaptation (the film version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which came fifth, was released in 2005). On 19 May 2005, Pullman attended the British Library in London to receive formal congratulations for his work from culture secretary Tessa Jowell "on behalf of the government".
On 25 May 2005, Pullman received the Swedish government's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's and youth literature (sharing it with Japanese illustrator Ryōji Arai).
The play was enormously successful and was revived (with a different cast and a revised script) for a second run between November 2004 and April 2005.
In May 2006, Pullman said of a version of the script that "all the important scenes are there and will have their full value"; in March 2008, he said of the finished film that "a lot of things about it were good....
New Line Cinema released a film adaptation of Northern Lights, The Golden Compass, in 2007.
In 2007, the judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's literature selected it as one of the ten most important children's novels of the previous 70 years.
In June 2007 it was voted, in an online poll, as the best Carnegie Medal winner in the seventy-year history of the award, the Carnegie of Carnegies.
The production finished up at West Yorkshire Playhouse in June 2009. ===Film=== New Line Cinema released a film adaptation, titled The Golden Compass, on 7 December 2007.
In 2008, The Observer cites Northern Lights as one of the 100 best novels.
It was first broadcast in 2003, and re-broadcast in both 2008-9 and in 2017, and was and released by the BBC on CD and cassette.
In May 2006, Pullman said of a version of the script that "all the important scenes are there and will have their full value"; in March 2008, he said of the finished film that "a lot of things about it were good....
It has since been staged by several other theatres in the UK and elsewhere. A new production was staged at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in March and April 2009, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and Sarah Esdaile and starring Amy McAllister as Lyra.
The production finished up at West Yorkshire Playhouse in June 2009. ===Film=== New Line Cinema released a film adaptation, titled The Golden Compass, on 7 December 2007.
The story tells of Lee and Iorek's first meeting and of how they overcame these enemies. ==="The Collectors"=== A short story originally released exclusively as an audiobook by Audible in December 2014, narrated by actor Bill Nighy.
While Sam Elliott blamed the Catholic Church's opposition for forcing the cancellation of any adaptations of the rest of the trilogy, The Guardian's film critic Stuart Heritage believed disappointing reviews may have been the real reason. ===Television=== In November 2015, the BBC announced that it had commissioned a television adaptation of His Dark Materials.
La Belle Sauvage, the first book in a new trilogy titled The Book of Dust, was published on 19 October 2017; the second book of the new trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth, was published in October 2019.
The first book, La Belle Sauvage, was published on 19 October 2017.
It was first broadcast in 2003, and re-broadcast in both 2008-9 and in 2017, and was and released by the BBC on CD and cassette.
The eight-part adaptation had a planned premiere date in 2017.
In April 2017, writer Jack Thorne told the Radio Times that the series was still in pre-production.
By July 2018, Dafne Keen had been provisionally cast as Lyra Belacqua, Ruth Wilson as Marisa Coulter, James McAvoy as Lord Asriel, Lin-Manuel Miranda as Lee Scoresby and Clarke Peters as the Master of Jordan College.
A BBC television series based on the novels commenced broadcast in November 2019. Pullman followed the trilogy with three novellas set in the Northern Lights universe; Lyra's Oxford (2003), Once Upon a Time in the North (2008), and Serpentine (2020).
La Belle Sauvage, the first book in a new trilogy titled The Book of Dust, was published on 19 October 2017; the second book of the new trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth, was published in October 2019.
In November 2019, the BBC listed His Dark Materials on its list of the 100 most influential novels. ==Controversies== His Dark Materials has occasioned controversy, primarily amongst some Christian groups. Cynthia Grenier, in the Catholic Culture, said: "In the world of Pullman, God Himself (the Authority) is a merciless tyrant.
The second book, The Secret Commonwealth, was published on 3 October 2019. ===Serpentine=== A novella that was released in October 2020.
The series received its premiere in London on 15 October 2019.
Broadcast began on BBC One in the United Kingdom and in Ireland on 3 November and on HBO in the United States on 4 November 2019.
The second book, The Secret Commonwealth, was published on 3 October 2019. ===Serpentine=== A novella that was released in October 2020.
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