Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzmanis an English-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction. He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in AIDS in his controversial novel Two Weeks with the Queen...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth9 January 1953
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Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.
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Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.
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I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.
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I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
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My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.
type
Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.
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The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.
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We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united
deserve
Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once
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A little hope goes a long way.
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Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
book character feelings
I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.