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Good Heavens! The Wondrous World of Writing – for Children & Grown-ups

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May 31 2022 to May 31 2022 6:30 p.m.

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Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

“Writing for children isn’t easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn’t interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them.” – Kate Klise

 “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” – Madeleine L’Engle

Writing for children is a whole world of its own, some distance away from writing for grownups. The term “adults”, has strange, not so savoury connotations. Just shows how contextual the use of a word is. All the more then, is there a difference in writing for children and writing for grownups? Of course there is, but not what most people assume it is.

What makes it difficult to write for children? Having mastered the art of writing for children, how does one write for grown-ups?

But why is it important to examine these differences? Because our growth story as humans rests much on our language, our vocabulary, our power of expression. And so we need to take care in what we read, and that we read at all.

So let’s look at writing for children and for grownups. Are children always children and have grownups really grown up?

Join us as Poile Sengupta speaks of the wondrous world of literature for children and grown-ups. All through her trailblazing, versatile, and genre-bending career, writing has been Poile’s passion and identity, gift and curse, and the demon on her back. She relishes in taking the English language by the neck and making the language writhe and twist, coil and dance, and bloom!

In this session we explore how Poile’s work has enchanted generations of readers across a wide range of age groups. Sit back and enjoy as we reference the literary greats – some of Poile’s favourite writers – from Arthur Conan Doyle to Enid Blyton, from Anthony Trollope to William Shakespeare, from Charles Dickens to Jane Austen, from Satyajit Ray to Douglas Adams.

Poile Sengupta discusses these issues with samples from her own writing. Sumeet Shetty will be in conversation with her. Munira Sen and Ameya Krishnaswamy read from her work.

For everyone who loves reading and writing, this is an unmissable evening of literary adventures!


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