Dara McAnulty is a 18-year-old autistic naturalist,
conservationist and activist from Northern Ireland. After writing
his online blog 'Naturalist Dara' for over three years and writing
articles for many UK Wildlife NGOs, he published his debut book,
Diary of a Young Naturalist which won, among other titles, the
Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2020 - making him the youngest
ever winner of a major UK literary prize - the British Book Awards
Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2021, the Books are My Bag
Readers' Award 2020, and Newcomer of the Year, An Post Irish Awards
2020. Dara has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Ulster,
Springwatch, Countryfile, Homeground, BBC Bitesize, Observer, The
Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Positive News and The Big
Issue.
Dara is a passionate and fervent campaigner for the natural world
and dedicated fundraiser, volunteer and wildlife recorder. He is
the youngest ever winner of the Royal Society for the Protection of
Birds Medal for services to conservation and nature. He is also the
recipient of 10 Downing Street's 'Points of Light' and the winner
of The Daily Mirror Young Animal Hero award. He lives with his
family and Rosie the rescue-greyhound at the foot of the Mourne
Mountains in County Down.
Dara's is an extraordinary voice and vision: brave, poetic,
ethical, lyrical, strong enough to have made him heard and admired
from a young age.
*Robert Macfarlane*
It's a diary but essentially timeless. It's about enduring, it's
about passion, beauty and connection. It's really, really
special.
*Chris Packham*
Dara is only 16 and autistic, and is already on his way to becoming
one of the most talented and passionate writers of our era.
*Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes*
Feeling illuminates every page of this miraculous memoir ... His
portrait of loving parents raising three neurodivergent children on
poetry, punk and puffins is profoundly moving ... intimate,
sensitive, deeply felt
*Observer*
Like reading William Blake or Ted Hughes, it really is a strange
and magical experience...surely one of the most talked about nature
books, or any books, this year
*Daily Mail*
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