Mike Mopog lived in rural Devon, Ides, England, which was once the base camp of famous German cavalry in World War I. Later, Mopog met several survivors of World War I, and one of the cavalry told Mopog how much they trusted their horses on the battlefield. Other veterans told the story of where you would go during the war, the world separated by Yin and Yang. In these stories, there is a protagonist like a horse. Therefore, Moberg followed the clues of horses, and he learned that there were 65,438+million horses that died in World War I ... So, an idea based on horses' war experience took root in Moberg's heart. A few years later, Morpurgo, who had done numerous interviews and investigations, met a stranger. He doesn't like dealing with people, but he tells the horse all his worries. After meeting this weirdo, Morpurgo finally determined the plot of his novel: writing about what a horse saw and heard in the war. It has been fed by several families and several owners and has seen the whole process of the war. The scars left by the war in human hearts still remain on it. Those human mumbles have become a part of its life. In Mo Borg's novel, the owner of this horse is a German farm boy, an English cavalry officer, a German soldier and a French family. Because of its unique perspective and concise writing, this novel was published in 1982 and won the second place in the Whitbread Book Award (now the Costa Literature Award).
After the success of the novel, Moberg wanted to adapt it into a play script, but it was very difficult to adjust the story from a horse's point of view to a human's point of view. So after five years' efforts, the adaptation of famous British producers Simon Qian Ning-William and Mopogo failed. However, in 2007, well-trained Nick Stafford successfully adapted the novel into a script and practiced it side by side into a drama. Because of this play, Nick Stafford was nominated by Lawrence laurence olivier awards in 2008 and won the Tony Award of 20 1 1 year.