Salisbury City Council: Campaign for a permanent statue of Sir Terry Pratchett in Salisbury. Sir Terry Pratchett is a national icon when it comes to creating fantasy worlds that bring joy to millions of people. With over 70 books and 75 million copies sold worldwide, he created a powerful legacy that has encouraged reading and creativity. And here in Salisbury we were lucky enough to have him as a local resident for over 20 years. He worked with local people and artists, and made wonderful contributions to the local hospital. But there is little to inform the guests and residents of this vastly popular city of Sir Terry's involvement, or the love the community had for him in return. Salisbury take pride in many notable statues and works of art across the city, but we would like to campaign for a permanent statue, in a prominent location, in memory of Sir Terry's incalculable role in the culture of this country.
Report 3 Statue of Sir Terry Pratchett. IUPAC, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Name new element 117 Octarine, in honour of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. This petition is to name element 117, recently confirmed by the International Union of Applied Chemistry, as 'Octarine', with the proposed symbol Oc (pronounced 'ook'), in honour of the late Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series of books. The Discworld series has sold more than 70 million books worldwide, in 37 different languages. Terry Pratchett died in 2015 and his final book, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in the same year. He was well-known as a lover of science and, with two well-known science writers, co-wrote a series of four books called The Science of the Discworld, which took a sideways look at 'roundworld' (Earth) science. Octarine, in the Discworld books, is known as 'the colour of magic', which forms the title of Pratchett's first ever Discworld book.
Rhianna Pratchett plonge dans ses souvenirs. La fille de feu sir Terry Pratchett s'est à nouveau exprimée sur son père, et notamment la vision qu'elle et ses proches gardent de lui après sa mort. Elle revient plus longuement sur ce sujet que lors d'une précédente interview donnée en mars dernier. Elle nous apprend notamment que la Mort du Disque-Monde était tellement apprécié des lecteurs que nombre d'entre eux envoyaient des lettres à l'auteur, lui disant que ce personnage haut en couleurs les avait aidés à affronter la grande faucheuse.
Rhianna mentionne également les batailles de son père pour la recherche sur Alzheimer et le droit à l'euthanasie après avoir appris, à l'âge de 59 ans, être atteint d'une forme rare d'Alzheimer. L'image qu'elle a conservé de son père est celle de celui qu'il était lorsqu'elle était enfant, qui se promenait avec elle en forêt et lui apprenait à reconnaître les plantes.
Selon ses mots, Terry Pratchett ne lui a pas appris la magie. Discuter du Disque-Monde sur le forum. The color of magic: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld characters in LEGO. It’s time to travel to Discworld and enjoy this fantastic series of characters from the works of Sir Terry Pratchett, brought to us by Pate-keetongu (Eero Okkonen). Eero started these shortly after the death of Pratchett in March this year. His first build was a large-scale creation of his favourite Discworld character, Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully (back-row, far left in the photo below).
The Archchancellor, Professor of Unusual and Cruel Geography, Dean, Librarian and The Luggage. If you’re not familiar with Terry Pratchett, he was the author of a series of 41 comic fantasy books that take place in the Discworld, a flat circular world that rests on the backs of four elephants who are standing on the back of a turtle. I simply must point out a few of my favourite parts, although it is hard to narrow this down to only my top three. Commander Vimes Susan Sto Helit, Granddaughter of Death TBB: What was the hardest aspect of a Discworld character to capture in LEGO? Like this post? Utopiales 2015 : The Pratchett Legacy. Octogones 2015 : Questions à Patrick Couton. Terry Pratchett en tête des ventes. Terry Pratchett's books are the opposite of 'ordinary potboilers' Like many people on Twitter, I felt the red mist descend as I read Guardian art columnist Jonathan Jones’s newly published article saying that life is too short to read a Terry Pratchett novel.
I’ve loved the Discworld books since I was nine and also spent some of my professional life carefully reading and commenting on them. But a raised eyebrow and a shoulder shrug are probably the most dignified response to Jones’s declaration that while he doesn’t intend to read a single one of Pratchett’s books, he is nonetheless sure that they’re not “actual literature” and that the late author was a “mediocrity” churning out “ordinary potboilers”. When he turned his attention to “the true delights of ambitious fiction”, though, I had to speak up. Jones writes: “This summer I finally finished Mansfield Park. How had I managed not to read it up to now? Funnily enough, I finally finished Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett this summer. Here we go: “This summer I finally finished Equal Rites. But no fear. Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius | Art and design. It does not matter to me if Terry Pratchett’s final novel is a worthy epitaph or not, or if he wanted it to be pulped by a steamroller.
I have never read a single one of his books and I never plan to. Life’s too short. No offence, but Pratchett is so low on my list of books to read before I die that I would have to live a million years before getting round to him. I did flick through a book by him in a shop, to see what the fuss is about, but the prose seemed very ordinary. I don’t mean to pick on this particular author, except that the huge fuss attending and following his death this year is part of a very disturbing cultural phenomenon.
In the age of social media and ebooks, our concept of literary greatness is being blurred beyond recognition. Actual literature may be harder to get to grips with than a Discworld novel, but it is more worth the effort. Because life really is too short to waste on ordinary potboilers. This summer I finally finished Mansfield Park. But Terry Pratchett? 11 Reasons Terry Pratchett Is A Literary Genius. Terry Pratchett wanted unfinished work destroyed by a steamroller. Author told his friend that his work should be 'put in middle of the road'Gaiman, Good Omens co-author, is 'ridiculously glad' that did not happenSir Terry's final novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published yesterday66-year-old, a 'right to die' supporter, died in March after Alzheimer's battle By Steph Cockroft for MailOnline Published: 03:10 GMT, 28 August 2015 | Updated: 10:18 GMT, 28 August 2015 Terry Pratchett, whose final novel was published yesterday, wanted his unfinished work to be destroyed by a steamroller after he died, his friend has revealed.
Award-winning author Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote Good Omens with the late fantasy writer, said Sir Terry wanted any work being penned at the time of his death to be 'taken out along with his computers to be put in the middle of the road and for a steamroller to steamroll over them all.' The writer, whose books include The Sandman and Coraline, added that he is 'ridiculously glad' that did not happen.
Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% MinimizeExpandClose. VLC 2.2.1 : une mise à jour corrective diffusée par VideoLAN. Pratiquement deux mois après la sortie de VLC 2.2.0, l'association VideoLAN vient de publier cette semaine une mise à jour de son célèbre lecteur multimédia. Estampillée 2.2.1 et baptisée Terry Pratchett en hommage au romancier britannique, décédé en mars et connu pour avoir écrit la série "Les Annales du Disque-monde", elle vient corriger des imperfections dans le logiciel. Dans le détail, la version 2.2.1 de VLC résout des plantages avec FLAC et SPC, des problèmes de codec (VP9, Atrac3, AAC) et plusieurs soucis avec la reprise de lecture, le chapitrage MP4 et la lecture d'un fichier MKV via un flux réseau.
Il est aussi indiqué que cette nouvelle mouture supprime une faille de sécurité ("multiple buffer and heap overflows in VLC modules and updater"). Pour obtenir cette mise à jour, vous pouvez passer par le site officiel ou par le logiciel lui-même (menu "Aide" > "Vérifier les mises à jour"). Traduire la fantasy burlesque de Terry Pratchett, « un vrai défi » Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Propos recueillis par Benjamin Benoit Patrick Couton est le traducteur en français de l'écrivain britannique Terry Pratchett, mort à 66 ans le 12 mars. Son travail pour les éditions L'Atalante, reconnu des fans, a été récompensé en 1998 par le prix de l'imaginaire. Ce joueur d'autoharpe et habitué des Utopiales de Nantes revient sur le style si particulier du maître de la fantasy humoristique. Comment êtes-vous devenu le traducteur de Terry Pratchett ? J'ai été contacté par les éditions L'Atalante pour les débuts de la saga du Disque-Monde, quelque part vers 1991.
Le succès a été immédiat en France, mais bien moins qu'en Angleterre, où la saga est tout de suite devenue un phénomène. Pratchett y publiait deux ouvrages par an ! Comment se caractérise le style de Terry Pratchett ? C'est un style très drôle, pas facile à traduire, mais amusant. L'écriture de Pratchett a beaucoup évolué. Il y a beaucoup de jeux de mots et de néologismes dans le Disque-Monde. Terry Pratchett, un univers entre Kant, Platon et Kierkergaard.
Il a vendu 75 millions d'exemplaires de ses romans, et il a pris les armes contre la maladie d'Alzheimer, dont il est victime depuis 2007. Depuis 1983, Terry Pratchett fait rire ses lecteurs, avec des aventures de fantasy complètement déjantées. Mais il intéresse également les savants : pour preuve, cette étude menée par deux philosophes, très sérieusement.
Lamerie, CC BY 2.0 James South et Jacob Held, deux enseignants de philosophie, viennent de faire paraître une étude portant sur l'œuvre de Pratchett. Tous deux sont agrégés de philosophie, le premier à l'université Marquette, l'autre à celle de Central Arkansas. « C'est un homme très intelligent, un écrivain de talent, et il comprend aussi bien que n'importe quel philosophe le pouvoir de la narration, et les problèmes humains à trouver du sens à la vie, et le monde dans lequel on vit », expliquent-ils. Pour exemple, la vision de la mort, telle qu'elle est présentée chez Pratchett, serait profondément kantienne. (via Guardian) Is Earth Actually Flat? Interview de Mireille Rivalland sur Terry Pratchett. Novembre, le mois Terry Pratchett ! Huit titres en novembre ! Il y aura ce mois-ci huit titres de Terry Pratchett en librairie chez l’Atalante et chez Pocket.
L’éditeur nantais va rééditer les quatre premiers tomes des Annales du Disque Monte : La Huitième Couleur, Le Huitième Sortilège, La Huitième Fille et Mortimer avec de nouvelles (superbes) couvertures. Et la grosse info, c’est qu’il y aura une offre de lancement. Jusqu’à la fin du mois de février, ces quatre premiers tomes seront à 10 euros au lieu de 17 euros. Jolie opération... Et si vous souhaitez découvrir le cycle en version poche, au même moment, les éditions Pocket rééditent le premier tome, la Huitième Couleur, toujours au prix de 3.5 euros. Un bonheur ne venant jamais seul, trois inédits vont arriver dans les bacs en novembre. Voir sur le forum... Vous voulez donner votre avis sur ce sujet ? Terry Pratchett’s inspirations for Raising Steam. Terry Pratchett: how I wrote my first stories as a cub reporter | Children's books. Focus on a planet revolving in space: Focus in on a small country in the northern hemisphere – Great Britain.
Closer, closer… and on the western edge of London you can see the county of Buckinghamshire. Small villages and winding country roads. And if you could go back in time to the mid 1960s, you might spot a young lad on a motorbike coming down one such lane, notebook and pen in his jacket pocket. This is me. It was a lot of fun back then. The stories in this collection are a selection of those. So, turn the page and read the stories that I wrote as a teenager, mostly as they were first printed, although the grown-up me has tinkered just a little with a few fine details – the odd tweak here, a pinch there, and a little note at the bottom where needed and all because the younger me wasn't as clever back then as he turned out to be.
And to imagine… Terry Pratchett, Wiltshire, 2014. Authors dress up as their favourite characters. 29 June 2014Last updated at 11:57 ET By Genevieve Hassan Entertainment reporter, BBC News Cambridge Jones dressed as fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles Photographer Cambridge Jones has collaborated with The Story Museum for its latest exhibition which celebrates childhood story heroes and sees well-known authors dress up as their favourite literary characters. When the The Story Museum approached Cambridge Jones to take pictures for its 26 Characters exhibition, the photographer wanted images that visitors would actually stop and look at. "Just taking a bunch of authors isn't going to make people interested - and authors aren't necessarily outgoing people," he says. "So I thought what if we gave them permission to have fun by asking them who their favourite character from childhood was and let their imagination run free. " Here is a selection of the photographs, together with Jones's own comments.
Philip Pullman as Long John Silver from Treasure Island Anthony Horowitz as Jekyll and Hyde. Terry Pratchett | TerryPratchett’s My Independent Bookshop. Terryandrob : Yes. They're corks. Professor ... University of South Australia awards author, humanist, comedian Terry Pratchett honorary doctorate. University of South Australia has awarded Terry Pratchett an honourary doctorate. Picture: David Bird Source: Supplied UNIVERSITY of South Australia Vice Chancellor Professor David Lloyd has presented international best-selling author, humourist and humanist Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE, with an honorary doctorate for his contribution to literature and creative writing.
Congratulate Sir Terry Pratchett below “I have been on the receiving end of many awards throughout my career, but I really am delighted to have been acknowledged in this way by the University of South Australia,” Pratchett said on Tuesday. “My love of Australia is widely-known and I am only sorry that I am unable to make the journey Down Under to receive my honorary doctorate in person. “Therefore, my humble thanks go to Professor Lloyd for racking up the air miles on my behalf.” Professor Lloyd, who made the journey to the UK to present the award, says Practchett is a clear example of someone who has stayed true to his passion.
Those of us with dementia need a little help from our friends | Terry Pratchett | Society. A few years ago, my novel Dodger took the reader back to times long gone to meet famous names of fact and fiction, and brought them together on a journey – ultimately – of chivalry. Enduring danger and peril, they chase a woman who needs saving and do their best to protect her. In the book, Dodger (who is based on Dickens's masterful portrayal of the original Artful Dodger) gets into a number of scrapes for Simplicity's sake. As a reward, we see him climb the social ladder of acceptance until, by the end of the book, he is honoured and revered. Without appearing a curmudgeon, I worry that such kindness could be a thing of the past. As you may already know, I live with dementia. If you haven't already seen it, last week Public Health England and the Alzheimer's Society launched a TV campaign encouraging society to emulate my Dodger's valiant behaviour in their everyday lives.
Dementia. Ultimately, research is the answer. Raising steam, de Terry Pratchett | Chroniques (SEb) International Sir Terry Pratchett Day - The London Book Fair. Terry Pratchett s'est forgé sa propre épée en météorite. La Science du Disque-monde : troisième acte à paraître. Locus Online Perspectives » Terry Pratchett: Talking to Other Monkeys.