---
name: "Mark Haddon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-haddon"
fi1m_id: "mark-haddon"
imdb_id: "nm0352738"
tmdb_id: 1324631
wikidata_id: "Q356357"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 October 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T14:52:28.855696+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mark Haddon

## Identity

Mark Haddon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-haddon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-haddon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0352738
- **TMDB ID:** 1324631
- **Wikidata ID:** Q356357
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Haddon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356357, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1324631

Writer. Born 28 October 1962 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 October 1962, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Haddon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356357, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1324631

## Biography

Mark Haddon is an English writer of novels, children's literature, poetry, screenplays and radio drama. He is best known for the novel *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time* (2003), which won the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

Haddon wrote the BBC television film *Coming Down the Mountain* (2007), directed by Julie Anne Robinson and starring Nicholas Hoult and Tommy Jessop. It was adapted from his earlier Radio 4 afternoon play, which won a Sony Radio Academy Award. His other novels include *A Spot of Bother* (2006).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Coming Down the Mountain* (2007), Fi1m 77, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/coming-down-the-mountain.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time* (2012), Novel
- *A Spot of Bother* (2010), Writer
- *Coming Down the Mountain* (2007), Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/coming-down-the-mountain.md)
- *Fungus the Bogeyman* (2004), Writer
- *Fungus the Bogeyman* (2004), series, Writer
- *Microsoap* (1998), series, Writer, Creator
- *Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars* (1996), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*, Novel

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 1 nominated

- O. Henry Award 2014: O. Henry Award (won)
- Zilveren Zoen 2004: Zilveren Zoen (won)
- Booker Prize 2003: Booker Prize (nominated), for *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*
- Costa Book Awards 2003: Costa Book Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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