2024 term 2 English

• Andy Mulligan was born in South London
• Mulligan studied in the university of Oxford
• Mulligan was out of work in the 1980s, because of the economic downfall in Britain
• Mulligan's career

  1. Retrained as a teacher

  2. Taught in Cornwall, England, Vietnam, Brazil and the Philippines
• Mulligan was inspired to write his novel "Trash" after seeing the exposure to children living in landfill in the Philippines
• Mulligan's writing

  Best known for his young adult fiction
• Mulligan's popular novels

  • Ribblestop
  • Trash
• Mulligan won the "Guardian Children's Fiction Prize" for Ribblestop
• Trash was shortlisted for the "Carnegie Meddle"
• Mulligan wrote Trash while he was working as a teacher in Manila
• Themes in Mulligan's writing

  • Poverty
  • Comedy
• Mulligan wrote Trash to spread awareness about poverty and people having to dig through trash every day just to make a few dollars