So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story. I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into. I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». The Hunger Games also cleared the way for a YA tsunami. Of the approximately million books sold annually in the U. By their own merit, The Hunger Games books have sold over million copies worldwide and are translated into 54 languages. And now, the upcoming prequel, The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes , is set to release on May 19, continuing the story of dystopian Panem.
Set decades in Panem's past, The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes follows an year-old Snow — years before he becomes the nefarious President Snow — as he mentors a new mentee from District 12 before the 10th Hunger Games. Beyond that, not much more is known about where the story will go, but one thing is for sure: it will only serve to further highlight the influence of Collins and the Hunger Games franchise on the literary world. But, as The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes is set to be released, Shondaland wanted to put voice to just how prominent Collins has been in the YA genre.
Thus, we gathered other young adult authors, who also happen to be enormous fans of her work, to weigh in on both what these books have achieved in the last decade and what they mean to them as both writers and readers. The book tells the tale of a boy and his discovery of a vast new world he discovers when he accidentally falls through the grate of the laundry room in his New York City apartment building. Gregor received critical success and become a New York Times best seller.
While The Underland Chronicles made Collins a well-known author, it was her next series that ratcheted up her celebrity status. As Collins later recalled, The Hunger Games trilogy was born while she was watching television late one night.
Flipping through the channels, Collins was suddenly struck by the lack of distinction between reality TV and coverage of the Iraq war: "We have so much programming coming at us all the time," she says. Are we becoming desensitized to the entire experience? I can't believe a certain amount of that isn't happening. The Hunger Games revolves around the series' rebel heroine, Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, formerly known as North America. In Panem, the Hunger Games are an annual event in which young boys and girls fight to the death in a televised battle.
For Collins, The Hunger Games and her other books touch on the very subjects—necessary and unnecessary wars—that her own father often discussed with her. I know from my experience that we are quite capable of understanding things and processing them at an early age.
She has won various awards and honors from different institutions. Suzanne possessed a special love for reading and writing from a young age. She also got impetus from Alice in the Wonder Land and has tried to produce a literary wonder comprising exciting and thrilling adventures like that masterpiece.
The book was published in and became an instant hit. Once again, the publication won readers and earned fame for the writer. Later, her international bestseller three-book series appeared in
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