Philip Pullman
Award-winning Cumnor author Philip Pullman is to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University,it has been confirmed.
Mr Pullman, who will become a Doctor of Letters, will be one of seven people to receive honorary degrees at the university’s annual ceremony on Wednesday, June 24.
It is the latest in a string of honours for Mr Pullman, who was made CBE in 2004 and given the Freedom of the City of Oxford in 2007.
Honorary degrees will also be given to poverty campaigner Fazle Hasan Abed, architect Dr Santiago Calatrava-Valls, historian Prof Natalie Zemon Davis, scientists Prof Erwin L Hahn and Prof Barry Marshall and pianist Mitsuko Uchida.
fbardsley@oxfordmail.co.uk
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