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British children's writer (born )

Sir Michael Andrew Bridge MorpurgoOBE FRSL FKC DL (néBridge; 5 October )^[1] is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse ().

His work is noted for its "magical storytelling",^[2] for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War.

Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from to ,^[3] and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.^[4]

Early life

Morpurgo was born in in St Albans, Hertfordshire, as Michael Andrew Bridge, the second child of actor Tony Van Bridge and actress Kippe Cammaerts (daughter of the writer and poet Émile Cammaerts).^[5] Both RADA graduates, his parents had met when they were acting in the same reperto