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10/08/2024

This beautiful artwork by Ayish Fatima of Class 4 showcases the multiple identities that a woman holds and highlights the crucial role each identity plays. 🌸👩‍🎨

Which identity do you think is most important?

Whatever one writes, is a response based on one’s experiences as well as perception of the environment around. Following...
16/04/2024

Whatever one writes, is a response based on one’s experiences as well as perception of the environment around.

Following is an example of how the same environment can elicit a different response from a different set of people.

1. The leaves showering light on our heads,
Tapping and dancing around
With the rhythm of life.

2. The leaves littering around,
Devoid of any sweet pleasure,
Like candyless wrappers;
Leaving the tree,
Without any cover,
Bare like me.

03/02/2024
01/05/2023

Calling young thinkers and writers 📝

The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2023 asks you to explore the power young people hold within the global community and how it can be harnessed to make a meaningful impact.

You must enter by 30 June. Entrants must be aged 18 or under.

See Royal Commonwealth Society for more 👇
https://www.royalcwsociety.org/qcec2023

21/03/2023

Submission is open now; 4-18 years can take part in it from across Pakistan.
For more details
https://bit.ly/13artbeat

02/02/2023

The British Council is supporting the Folklore Writing Prize as part of the , taking place from 24-26 February 2023.

The prize invites young writers (16-25) to submit an original creative writing piece - in English or Urdu, and limited to maximum 1,000 words - using the paintings of Ustad Allah Bakhsh that are on permanent display at the Alhamra Art Museum, Lahore as inspiration.

Writers are asked to visit the Museum to create a single, original work that explores the resonance of Bakhsh’s folklore.

*Deadline: 12 February 2023*

06/10/2022

BREAKING NEWS
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

The French writer Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy, where her parents had a combined grocery store and café. Her setting was poor but ambitious, with parents who had pulled themselves up from proletarian survival to a bourgeois life, where the memories of beaten earth floors never disappeared but where politics was seldom broached. In her writing, Ernaux consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class. Her path to authorship was long and arduous.

Her memory work dealing with her rural background appeared early as a project attempting to widen the boundaries of literature beyond fiction in the narrow sense. Despite her classic, distinctive style, she declares that she is an “ethnologist of herself” rather than a writer of fiction.

Annie Ernaux’s debut was ‘Les armoires’ vides (1974; ‘Cleaned Out’, 1990), and already in this work she started her investigation of her Norman background, but it was her fourth book, ‘La place’ (1983; ‘A Man’s Place’, 1992), that delivered her literary breakthrough. In a scant hundred pages she produced a dispassionate portrait of her father and the entire social milieu that had fundamentally formed him. The portrait employed her developing restrained and ethically motivated aesthetics, where her style has been forged hard and transparent. It flagged a series of autobiographical prose works one step beyond the imaginary worlds of fiction. And even if there is still a narrative voice, it is neutral and as far as possible anonymised. Moreover, Ernaux has inserted reflexions about her writing, where she distances herself from “the poetry of memory” and advocates une écriture plate: plain writing which in solidarity with the father evinces his world and his language. The concept écriture plate is related to le nouveau roman in France from the 1950s and the striving towards what Roland Barthes called a “zero degree of writing”. There is however also an important political dimension in Ernaux’s language. Her writing is always shadowed by a feeling of treason against the social class from which she departs. She has said that writing is a political act, opening our eyes for social inequality. And for this purpose she uses language as “a knife”, as she calls it, to tear apart the veils of imagination. In this violent yet chaste ambition to reveal the truth, she is also an heir of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

A masterpiece from her production is the clinically restrained narrative about a 23-year-old narrator’s illegal abortion, ‘L’événement’ (2000; ‘Happening’, 2001). It is a first-person narrative, and the distance to the historical self is not stressed as in many other works. The I is made an object anyway through the moral restrictions of a repressive society and the patronising attitude of people she is confronted with. It is a ruthlessly honest text, where in parentheses she adds reflexions in a vitally lucid voice, addressing herself and the reader in one and the same flow. In the spaces in between, we are in the time of writing, 25 years after the “event” took place, making even the reader intensely part of what once happened.

Annie Ernaux manifestly believes in the liberating force of writing. Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean. And when she with great courage and clinical acuity reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.

Anders Olsson
Chairman of the Nobel Committee
The Swedish Academy

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3f9Wd3s

02/09/2022

I had written and illustrated this several years ago for a book to be used in rural and semi rural areas.
Thinking of the women flood victims and them having to cope with life in these disastrous times ☹️
اماں ، خالہ، باجی، بھابھی
چاچی، تائی، پھوپھی، مامی
کام کریں اور کام کریں
پل بھر نا آرام کریں
صبح سویرے سب اٹھ جائیں
اٹھتے ہی گھر میں جُٹ جائیں
گائے بھینس کو چارہ ڈالیں
چوزوں کو ڈربے سے نکالیں
لکڑی لاؤ چولہا جلاؤ
گیہوں پیسو روٹی بناؤ
گھر گر ہستی کھیتی باڑی
سو فکریں اور اک بیچاری
ابا، بھیا، ماموں، تایا
دیکھو اب وہ زمانہ آیا
گھر دھندوں کی تم بھی خبر لو
کام کاج کچھ تم بھی کر لو
عورت کے ہیں دو ہی ہاتھ
تم بھی دو کچھ اُس کا ساتھ

Amma, Khala, Baji, Bhabi
Chachi, Tai, Phuppi, Mami
Kaam karain aur kaam karain
Pal bhar naa aaraam karain
Subah savere sub uth jaain
Uthte hee ghar may jutt jaain
Ga-ain bhains ko chara dalain
Chuzon ko darbe say nikalain
Lakri laao, chulha jalao
Gehun peeso, roti banao
Ghar girhasti kheti badi
Sau fikrain aur ik bechari
Abba, Bhaiyya, Mamu, Taya
Dekho ab woh zamana aaya
Ghar dhando ki tum bhi khabar lo
Kaam kaaj kuch tum bhi ker lo
Aurat ke hain do hee haath
Tum bhi do kuch uska saath

21/06/2022

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21/06/2022

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21/06/2022
21/06/2022

By Shah Aneequddin It only felt like yesterday, woken up on my bed I lay. The world became a new place to dwell, with several people severely unwell. As time elapsed,the situation relapsed. And sev…

Novels of voices!
04/06/2022

Novels of voices!

Not an adversity!
02/06/2022

Not an adversity!

Abi Horsfield posted this on the Bearded Theory chat page yesterday. It’s by her son Casey, who is 11, and he performed it in a poetry competition at the festival & came first.
I’m not surprised - it’s brilliant. Well done Casey - Support spot welcome one day 🙂 One for you Janine Booth

Important!!!
29/05/2022

Important!!!

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‘Children are concerned about not getting it right, and that is part of the problem. But actually, it’s really good fun ...
20/05/2022

‘Children are concerned about not getting it right, and that is part of the problem. But actually, it’s really good fun telling a story. I’ve been working on a new one this morning. I started the day thinking it was going to be one kind of a story. I started the first three or four sentences, which didn’t seem to go that well, so I crossed them out. That’s what you do – you judder and judder until you find the right tone for the story and a path seems to open up through the undergrowth in front of you, and you find a way to go. But it’s not going to be helped by a constant worry that the sentence you have just written is not correct.’ (Michael Morpurgo)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/18/my-spelling-isnt-that-great-michael-morpurgo-on-why-teaching-kids-to-love-writing-is-more-important-than-grammar?fbclid=IwAR1A9qZiUV6fM2CMufo-Qm_VHz07diAf97KSfeFPNtqwo5TAm7DO25JRI4U

The author, poet and playwright on why we should move away from Michael Gove-mandated lessons on fronted adverbials and back to unleashing the creative potential of children

20/05/2022

YOU PUT THE WORLD INTO THE BOOK, WE PUT THE BOOK OUT TO THE WORLD.
In 2020, the first International Children's Picture Book Award was launched and received huge attention. Though not all submissions won an official award, you all deserve a badge of honor for your attempt, dedication, and contribution.
The awards have sparked the childhood dreams of many people and kicked off a career in children's books for some others.
Three titles among all submissions have been published. Three dreams have been realized. Three young authors have made their marks with their debut picture books.
You put the world into the books, and now we put the books out to the world.
Congratulations to all the authors with their published titles.
We hope that they will inspire all other authors and illustrators to embark on their journey and create their own picture books. And do not forget to send us your work as the 2022 award is now open and waiting for you.

04/05/2022

We are thrilled to reveal that The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure will be read by the wonderful Miriam Margolyes!

Revisit the glorious magical world of The Faraway Tree, in this brand-new story by Jacqueline Wilson, perfect for the next generation of young readers.

If you'd like an early sneak peek, you can listen to an excerpt right now at https://fal.cn/3ojBP

Oblivionaire (noun)
09/04/2022

Oblivionaire (noun)

A 16-year-old girl from the capital city of Pakistan has won the New York Times’ Invent a World challenge by suggesting a noun for some leaders of the globalized economy.

Rohana Khattak has invented “oblivionaire” which means a billionaire who chooses to be blind to the disparity and inequality that his or her wealth is creating.

The new English world is a combination of “oblivious” and “billionaire”.

Rohana has also given an example to explain how oblivionaire can be used in a sentence:

“Gen Z’s furor over the so-called oblivionaires who ignore global crises is blowing up on social media, in a campaign being noticed by many global and political figures.”

03/04/2022

Rudyard Kipling was 41 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907.

He was, and still is, the youngest ever literature laureate. His stories, including the Jungle Book, have been entertaining generations of children ever since they were first published in 1893.

Have you read any of his books?

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3chAvqr

Meet SHAH ANEEQUDDIN, a talented young poet. “I started writing poetry at the age of 10 when I got into a petty argument...
02/04/2022

Meet SHAH ANEEQUDDIN, a talented young poet.

“I started writing poetry at the age of 10 when I got into a petty argument with my mother and locked myself in my room and all of sudden decided to take a paper and a pencil and describe things around me in a poetic form.

Poetry to me is a way of describing random incidents,objects,people, environment etc in a fun and lyrical way.Along with that I've always found writing my observations in a poetic manner an entertaining challenge.”

One of his recent poems has been selected for publication at our site. Enjoy!

https://papyrustoday.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/days-of-isolation/

By Shah Aneequddin It only felt like yesterday, woken up on my bed I lay. The world became a new place to dwell, with several people severely unwell. As time elapsed,the situation relapsed. And sev…

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I heart this so much!!!!

Available at 16th Karachi International Book Fair!
30/12/2021

Available at 16th Karachi International Book Fair!

One of our young writers is Akber Ameen Memon. He wrote his first book "Heroic Blood" in 2019 while he was 14 years old. Look what he thinks being a writer and don't forget to appreciate his work by buying from the stall of Xaheen Kids Club at Karachi International Book Fair, inshallah.

"I thought to write a book not because I want to change the world. I started writing as a hobby and I thought that I can write. Bit by bit when my talent unfolded, I started to get positive vibes from it and I felt that writing could be used as your form of expression, expressing your love for things around, your happiness and getting your frustration out. Writing is an escape and therapy. I think that I can write books that can change pattern of thinking but at the moment, I just write to help people learn lessons, enjoy and adapt quality characteristics from their favourite characters and that’s where change starts.

I think that I want to write more fantasy and contemporary for children. To learn yo live in current situations and fight their own demons because current affairs mixed with fantasy and contemporary fiction could grab the attention of children and surely, change their pattern of thinking."

Available at 16th Karachi International Book Fair!
30/12/2021

Available at 16th Karachi International Book Fair!

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