Darren Shan

The author of the book"Cirque Du Freak" is Darren Shan. Darren Shan was born in 1972 at Saint Tomas Hospital in London. At the age of three he started at English Marty's. Later on in his life he moved to Ireland with his mother,father and younger brother, and he never moved ever since. His first success was at the age of 15 when he was a runner up on a T.V script writing competition for R.T.E in Ireland. He received  primary education  in Askeaton and secondary education was in Copsewood College.
Darren Shan is well known for his vampire books. Before the writing buisness he worked in a cable company in Limerick. When Shan was 14 years old he bought his first ever type writer and started to write short stories, comic strips, and books. Shan made his first book a called Ayuamarca, his first book didn't sell very well. Later on he made a sequel to his first book called Hell's Horizon, that book sold fewer than the first one. His first successful book was Cirque Du Freak.

Cirque Du Freak won a lot of awards some famous awards are the Wyoming Soaring Eagle, the Sheffield Chilldren Award, Children Choice Award, etc. Cirque Du Freak is the push off for the Vampire's Blood Trilogy. The sequel to Cirque Du Freak is the Vapire's Assitant. They had now made a movie about Cirque Du Freak. Darren Shan many alot more books relating to Cirque Du Freak and other trilogies.

Shan is still continuing his carrer on make more books. The topic of them are most likely gonna be about vampires. Shan's first ever published book was at the age of 17. Shan might end his his whole trilogy with "Sons of Destiny. Shan has a website called www.darrenshan.com. The website is about recent updates about Shan and his books, also the realse dates of his new books. Shan came up with the idea of Cirque Du Freak on May 8,1997.