For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
Rosemary Sutcliff‘s books are loved by Hayao Miyazaki, who is one of Japan’s foremost living fantasy film-makers. In the 1980s and 90s his animations were huge hits at the Japanese box-office. Princess Mononoke was the biggest-earning Japanese film ever. Miyazaki is on record as a fan of the historical novels of Rosemary Sutcliff. Miyazaki’s films have been noted for their strong, self-reliant heroines, so I dream of him adapting Song for a Dark Queen!
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[…] Miyazaki’s “fifty favourite children’s books”. (I am not sure of his source). As mentioned before on this site, books by Rosemary Sutcliff were amongst the stories Miyazaki’s favourites […]
[…] Miyazaki’s “fifty favourite children’s books”. (I am not sure of his source). As mentioned before on this site, books by Rosemary Sutcliff were amongst the stories Miyazaki’s favourites […]
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