Philip Pullman: hit out at the pulping of the book
3 January 2013
Considering his literary reputation one might assume that author Philip Pullman finds inspiration in the highbrow, but he has discovered literary merit in an Australian soap.
“I go up to my room and work until lunchtime and then I watch Neighbours,” he said at a National Theatre talk last night to discuss his adaptation of 50 Grimm fairy tales. “It’s a very good source of stories and a good way of approaching the way that narratives work. They’re all there because there aren’t many stories in the first place.” Pullman, who has described himself as an agnostic atheist, had not visited the theatre since he debated the existence of God with the now-retired archbishop Rowan Williams. “It was a draw,” he insists.
