Children’s author David Almond to feature in Connecting Conversations series
David Almond
If you’ve ever wondered about the motivation behind a writer’s work, head along to Connecting Conversation’s series, where you can resolve some of those queries, as well as raising more.
On Sunday January 11th 2009, children’s author David Almond will talk to child and adult psychotherapist Viviane Green about his drive to write.
Viviane says: “Psychotherapists are naturally interested in people’s interior lives and how their hopes, fears and wishes shape the world they see. David Almond’s fiction explores these themes in a haunting way. He has an uncanny ability to write in spare and poetic prose how gritty physical reality is transformed by the power of the child’s imagination.”
David’s award-winning novel Skellig has been made into an opera and will be released as a film adaptation in 2009. His other novels include Kit’s Wilderness and Clay.
David says: “Like all writers, I’m driven to write, and that’s because something inside me is demanding to be written, to be given form. I think I’ve begun to understand what this ’something’ is, and I see how it has shaped so much of my work. But a lot remains mysterious, and I continue to be surprised by what emerges. Maybe this is why writing can often seem like dreaming, and why imagining can seem like remembering.”
The event will be held at Swiss Cottage Library, 88 Avenue Road, London, NW3 3HA
Tickets: £10/£5 concessions, £10 for Friends of Freud Museum
Book free online at www.connectingconversations.org or call 07787 814316 (£2.50 fee for phone bookings).
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