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An outstanding international panel of Judges is hereby announced for the Calaspia International Storywriting Competition for Young People:
- Mr. Gurcharan Das, world-famous business guru, columnist & playwright
- Ms Bianca Jagger the renowned social and human rights advocate
- Dr Michael Nobel, great-grand-nephew of the founder of the Nobel Prizes, and immediate past-President of the Nobel Family Society
- Alec Sokolow, one of the world's best filmscript writers and a nominee for an Academy Award (Oscar) for Toy Story (1995). He has written 47 screenplays, including Money Talks (1997), Goodbye Lover (1998), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Garfield (2004), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), Daddy Day Camp and Evan Almighty (both 2007) and
- G. P. Taylor, the best-selling author of Shadowmancer, Wormwood and other novels.
Below, as background information, are
- The details of the Competition, and
- Some information on the novel, as well as regarding the teenage twins who are authors of the novel on which the Competition is based.
For Interviews, Please Ring +41 78 697 4033 or email: bareillyevents@gmail.com
- The Competition:
Anyone aged 26 or less on 15 January 2008 can enter the competition by writing a story of up to 1,000 words based on the characters of the best-selling fantasy novel, Conspiracy of Calaspia, by the Guptara twins.
The ten top entrants will be chosen by the five Judges on the basis of the creativity and innovation of the entries, and will win an all expenses paid 10-day Literary Tour of the U.K. from July 16-26, 2008. Winners who are 16 years of age or older will also be offered a 50% scholarship for the C. S. Lewis Foundations' triennial Summer Institute from July 27-August 9, for a week each in Oxford and Cambridge: http://www.cslewis.org/programs/oxbridge/2008/index.html
The Calaspia International Storywriting Competition has been launched by Sought After Media LLC (California, USA) in co-operation with Starbloom Ltd. (Ireland), Nivedit Good Books Ltd (India) and South Asian Resources (Canada).
- The Authors and the Novel "Conspiracy of Calaspia":
The Guptara twins are 18, were born to an Indian father and English mother, and live in Switzerland. They completed the first draft of their highly-acclaimed novel when they were only eleven. Several complete re-writes later, Conspiracy of Calaspia is a 600 page blockbuster.
Jyoti, the younger twin, became probably the world's youngest full-time writer at the age of 15, shortly after becoming the youngest-ever writer to be published by The Wall Street Journal. Suresh, the elder twin, has just finished (summer 2007) the British School-Leaving Exams ("A" Levels) and is spending a year as a full-time writer too, before he decides about his future.
Their fantasy novel, Conspiracy of Calaspia, rose to number 2 on the Indian best seller list, second only to Kiran Desai's Man Booker Prize Winning Novel, The Inheritance of Loss.
Mondadori, the largest Italian publisher, has signed a substantial advance for the Insanity Saga - that is, the twin's first THREE novels (even though only the first has been written so far).
Rowohlt, one of the oldest German publishers has not only signed a six-figure advance for their trilogy, but has also chosen Conspiracy of Calaspia as the *lead* young adult novel for Rowohlt's 100th anniversary in 2008.
Conspiracy of Calaspia has been highly praised in the press as well as by other authors.
Full biographical and book-related information, press coverage, views from other authors, and PHOTOS of the Guptara twins are at: http://www.twins.guptara.net
Other relevant websites:
http://www.myspace.com/guptaratwins - The Guptara Twins on MySpace
BBC interview with the Guptara Twins:
http://vudyo.com/view_video.php?viewkey=84325132fca8edcdfb40
http://www.calaspia-competition.com - Full details of the Competition (including downloadable Bookmarks and Posters)
For Interviews, Please Ring +41 78 697 4033 or email: bareillyevents@gmail.com
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