TERRY PRATCHETT是全球最畅销的Discworld系列的著名创作者,其中第一部《魔法的颜色》于1983年出版。总之,他是五十本畅销书的作者。他的小说被广泛改编为舞台剧和银幕剧,他获得了包括卡内基奖章在内的多项奖项,并因文学服务而被授予爵士头衔。他的书目前在全球的销量达到7000万册,并被翻译成37种语言。
• "Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent... incredibly funny... compulsively readable." --The Times
• "His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction." --Mail on Sunday
• "May well be considered his masterpiece... Humour such as his is an endangered species." --The Times
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