A tribute to Terry Pratchett by his agent, the man who first published him in 1971

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Terry Pratchett was invited to be an Adjunct Professor and in November 2010 he lectured to a packed audience in Trinity’s Public Theatre. His subject? “The Importance of being Absolutely Amazed About Everything” or, as it was later called, “Being a Genuine Absent-minded Professor’, and then he was presented with a mortar board festooned with iridescent black feathers, produced by John Rocha. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Terry Pratchett’s love of Trinity came about because of the Library’s Long Room: he adored the great barrel-vaulted curve of the wooden ceiling which he first saw when he came to Dublin to receive an honorary doctorate of literature in 2008 (on the same day that Sir David Attenborough received his). Terry thought the library was ideal territory for the Unseen University’s orang-utan Librarian, one in which that great ape would be entirely at home. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Terry Pratchett at the Science Gallery in Dublin for the launch of his animated feature, The Duel. Trinity College Library inspired the idea of the cartoon short, a battle between two wizardly professors for the same book that came to fruition in 2013. It was a collaboration between Trinity’s Animation Hub, the staff and students of Ballyfermot College, TCD, and animation studio Giant Creative. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Thu Mar 19 2015 - 07:53

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