Hawel Castle the moving, author: Diana Wynn Jones

Neil Gaiman described the novelist Diana Wyn Jones as the best children's writer in the last forty years. She wrote the novel "Howl's Moving Castle" in 1986, which has since become a classic of literature suitable for reading at any time and place, and won the Phoenix Award in 2006, twenty years after its publication. It was also adapted into a famous film directed by the creative Hayao Miyazaki, which won the Mainichi Film Award in Japan in 2004, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2006. The book "Howl's Moving Castle" deals with several topics, most notably fate, aging, bravery, and love. Initially, Sophie accepts her fate as the eldest sister, and her younger brother is seen as a failure, so she sees no need to make any effort to change this fate. But the witch has a different opinion, turning Sophie into an elderly woman, forcing her to go out in pursuit of her luck, even as she tries to find a cure to restore her stolen youth. Sophie rearranged Howl's world—and her own world at the same time—since she set foot in the castle, starting with cleaning the place and ending with awakening what time had silenced in Howl and herself. Sophie was not an epic character nor possessed supernatural powers that fit the world of wizards she entered by chance. But she created wonders with what little she had, and it turned out that her little was much, very much, as she brought life back to the scarecrow, the fire demon, and Howl himself. About the novelist Diana Wyn Jones: Diana Wyn Jones is a British writer and novelist born in 1934 in London during World War II. Diana was born to two teachers, and at the age of five, she and her family were evacuated to Wales, then moved to several cities. After the war, her family returned to her hometown London and settled there. Her father worked as the director of an educational conference center. Diana married in 1956 to a man named John Buro, a researcher in medieval literature, and she had three children with her husband. Diana Wyn Jones began writing in the 1960s, during which she faced many family pressures. She published her first book in 1970 titled "The Change." She authored many books with different themes, including political ones and children's fantasy books. Her novel "Howl's Moving Castle" is among the best-selling and most translated books in the world. Number of pages: 344