What is "westmark"

Westmark (1981) is a fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, named for a fictional kingdom that is its setting. Alternatively, Westmark is a trilogy named for the novel, its first book. The novel won a 1982 National Book Award.

Showing influences of the French existentialist writers whose works Alexander translated early in his career, the series is far darker and more adult than his previous books for children including The Chronicles of Prydain. Although classified as fantasy, there is no magic, nor any sign of religious belief, in Westmark or the succeeding volumes.

The novel tells a story of political upheaval and revolution strikingly similar to the history of the French Revolution, as seen through the eyes of a young printer's apprentice who goes on the run after his master is murdered. It leads directly into the second volume of the trilogy, The Kestrel.

Westmark may refer to:

• Westmark (novel), a fantasy novel written by Lloyd Alexander
• Reichsgau Westmark, a planned Reichsgau of Nazi Germany, that included the former Territory of the Saar Basin, the Bavarian Palatinate and after 1940 the French département of Moselle in Lorraine (Lothringen)
• The Westmark School, a high school in Encino, California
• The «West Mark» or «West German Mark», an unofficial designation for the Deutsche Mark before the German Reunification of 1990.
• Westmark (name), a Swedish surname also popular in Finland and Denmark.
• Westmark Township, Phelps County, Nebraska, a township in Nebraska, USA
• Westmark hotel chain operating in Alaska and the Yukon, a division of Holland America Line.