The Sydney Writers’ Festival has
this week announced that Walker Books author – and one of the world’s most
loved authors of YA – Patrick Ness will make his next trip Down Under in May
next year as a key speaker as part of the exciting 2018 Festival line-up.
Hot off the heels of his literary
and cinematic success, Ness will be a key speaker as part of the Sydney Writers’
Festival’s Secondary Schools program, which this year is relocating to one of
Sydney’s most impressive arts and entertainment hubs, Carriageworks, from 30th
April to 6th May.
Ness will speak to his audience about where his
powerful stories have come from – from The Rest of Us Just Live Here, to
Chaos Walking, to A Monster Calls and his latest – and most
personal novel – Release. Ness will also delve deeper into what it’s
like to work as both an author and a screenwriter, and seeing his successful
works turn into major motion pictures.
As one of the world’s most beloved
writers of YA, and described by author John Green as, “An insanely beautiful
writer”, Ness is
currently riding on a wave of success following fellow YA authors whose books
have been adapted to screen (such as John Green’s A Fault in Our Stars
and franchises like The Hunger Games and Divergent). The movie
adaptation of his popular 2011 novel A Monster Calls (starring Liam
Neeson and Sigourney Weaver) was released in Australia in July this year, and a
movie based on his award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy is currently in
production with a cast led by Tom Holland (Spider-Man Homecoming) and
Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens).
In March next year, die-hard fans
will be excited as Walker Books releases a 10th Anniversary edition
of Chaos Walking (The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the
Answer and Monsters of Men).
The trilogy tells the story of Todd
Hewitt who is one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. Todd
lives in a town of men in New World, a place where you can hear everything men
think. But his town has been keeping secrets from him, secrets that force him
to run. On the way, he meets a girl named Viola who may be the key to unlocking
New World’s many secrets. Together, they try to escape and hide in an
environment where all thought is heard, all movement seen as they both discover
the truth about the lives they left behind, and the spectacular world they’ve
learned to call home.
Further information about Patrick
Ness and his books can be found at www.walkerbooks.com.au
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