After many failed attempts to bring Neil Gaiman s "The Sandman" to the screen, with Gaiman preventing some himself, the story earned the title "unfilmable." Now, 30 years since it published fans finally got the adaptation they deserved thanks to Netflix.
20 Apr 2021
RELAXED: Author Anne Fine, who admits to a low boredom threshold and is working on her latest project, begun in lockdown
Author Anne Fine has twice won the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s most prestigious children s book award, and has two Whitbread Awards, along with many other regional and foreign prizes. Twice voted Children’s Author of the Year, she was Children’s Laureate from 2001 to 2003, when she was also awarded an OBE for services to children’s literature and made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work is translated into 45 languages. Her novel Goggle-Eyes was adapted for the BBC and Madame Doubtfire became a hit for Twentieth Century Fox as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Anne has two daughters and four grandchildren and has lived in Barnard Castle with her partner, botanist Richard Warren, for 30 years.