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Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children
Remarks about children’s books made by Martin Amis on the BBC’s new book programme Faulks on Fiction, broadcast this week, have caused anger and offence among children’s writers.
“People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book,” Amis said, in a sideways excursion from a chat about John Self, the antihero of his 1984 novel Money. “I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.”
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Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children
My Story: Tim Rushby-Smith
Three years ago an accident left Tim Rushby-Smith facing sudden disability – just as he was about to become a father for the first time. He explains how he learned to face the future head on and build a new life – as a man, a husband and a father. (more…)
My Story: If You Fall…
Back in 1993, a rock-climbing accident left Karen Darke paralysed from the chest down. Though the life she’d previously known had come to an end, time and the inspiration of friends and family – plus a lot of trial and error on her part – has led to a new meaningful and fulfilling life, as she continues to explain to audiences around the UK. (more…)
My Story: ‘I Knew I Had The Ability’
Back in 1994, Michael Caines lost his right arm in a car accident. Two weeks later, the up and coming chef was back in the kitchen, as he explains to Laura Dunlop.
Michael Caines is a success. (more…)
My Story: Belinda Hollowood
Belinda Hollowood hasn’t let Turner Syndrome – a chromosome condition that affects only women and invariably leads to short stature and infertility – stop her from enjoying life.
I was born on Boxing Day, 1962 in a small nursing home in Bilston, near Wolverhampton. I was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome at birth, but did not find out myself until I was 18. I’ve been lucky in that, other than a loss of hearing, weak bones (I have plates on all four bones in my forearms after four breaks), short stature and being unable to have children, I am fit and healthy. There are many other complications that I have escaped. (more…)
My Story: Ems Coombes
Plymouth-based Ems Coombes was hoping for a special birthday present in June – the launch of her new multi-ability theatre company, Strictly Collaborative.
I had a stroke when I was 17 and, as a teenager, found I was given little support; when I came out of hospital, there wasn’t anything. I didn’t know what was happening to me and for six or seven years, even though I used a walking stick, I denied that I was disabled.
Having always been interested in drama, I was determined to work in the sector, but it was only when I got involved with the Priory in Totnes and saw them using drama to help integrate 19 people with physical or learning disabilities back into the community, that I began to understand what I was meant to be doing. That’s when I realised there was a niche for me; before that I didn’t really know what it was to be disabled, or even if it was possible to be a disabled person in the arts world. I spent the last part of my time at Dartington College of Arts researching what it was to be a disabled person in the arts world, and to see what there was out there. (more…)
