Oxford honours Pullman
With an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters. The full citation (in both Latin and English) is here (found via the ubiquitous Guardian book pages) and well worth reading, but before you go there, spot the children’s literature references in this Latin extract:
Tamesis prope ripam Grahameius ventum inter salices susurrantem audivit; qui etiam hac in urbe est sepultus. Oxoniae Alicia terram mirabilium intravit; Oxoniae gens hobbitorum nata est; Oxoniae porta ad Narniam est aperta. At hic quem nunc produco hunc ipsum locum vel maioribus laudibus ornavit, quippe qui in suis fabulis Oxoniam lepide descripserit et, ut ita dicam, dramatis sui personam fecerit.
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