There was a charity-run Christian school on site, on which Mulligan based Trash’s Pascal Aguilar Mission School. Mulligan found the landfill’s children-like Trash’s protagonists Raphael, Rat, and Gardo-to be highly intelligent, charming, and resilient. Trash was based on Mulligan’s personal exposure to several children living on a landfill in Manila in 2010, during a school trip with his 11-year-old students at the British School of Manila, in the Philippines. Mulligan subsequently wrote seven additional young adult novels before turning his hand to adult fiction in 2019.
Mulligan published his first young adult novel, Ribblestrop, in 2009, though it was the publication of Trash in 2010 that garnered him international acclaim as a writer-despite the fact that Trash sparked significant controversy over its depictions of violence and its use of profanity. It was Mulligan’s exposure to children living on a landfill in the Philippines that inspired Trash, which he wrote while working as a teacher in Manila, though he drew on his experiences with impoverished communities in several cultures to flesh out the story and characters. Mulligan’s exposure to poverty in India made him question his life’s path and he returned to Britain to retrain as a teacher, after which he taught in Cornwall, England Vietnam Brazil and the Philippines. However, the economic downturn in Britain under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left Mulligan out of work in the 1980s, resulting in a life-changing visit to Calcutta, India, where a friend was repairing an orphanage.
After completing university in the United Kingdom, he worked as a theater director and he had grand ambitions of running the Royal Shakespeare Company. Andy Mulligan was born and raised in South London.
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