Neil Gaiman — The Interview I’ve Waited 20 Years To Do

[Neil Gaiman — The Interview I’ve Waited 20 Years To Do](=) = --------------------------------------------------------------- “The biggest problem we run into is going, ‘This is who I am, this is what I’m like, this is how I function’ while failing to notice that you don’t do that anymore.” — Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman ([@neilhimself](=)) is the bestselling author and creator of books, graphic novels, short stories, film and television for all ages, including [Neverwhere](, [Coraline](=), [The Graveyard Book](), [The Ocean at the End of the Lane](, [The View from the Cheap Seats](=) and [the Sandman series of graphic novels](. His fiction has received Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Will Eisner Awards, among many other awards and honours. His novelistic retelling of Norse myths, [Norse Mythology](), has been a phenomenon, and an international bestseller, and won Gaiman his ninth Audie Award (for Best Narration by the Author). Recently Gaiman wrote all six episodes of, and has been the full-time showrunner, for [the forthcoming BBC/Amazon Prime mini-series adaptation]() of Good Omens, based on [the beloved 1990 book]( he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett. Many of Gaiman’s books and comics have been adapted for film and television including [Stardust](=) (starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer), [Coraline](=) (an Academy Award nominee and the BAFTA winner for Best Animated Film), and [How to Talk to Girls at Parties](, a movie based on Gaiman’s short story. The television series [Lucifer](=) is based on characters created by Gaiman in Sandman. His 2001 novel, [American Gods](, is a critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated TV series, [now entering its second season](. In 2017, Neil Gaiman became a Goodwill Ambassador for [UNHCR](=), the UN Refugee Agency. Originally from England, he lives in the United States, where he is Professor in the Arts at Bard College. 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