[SKRIVA] Hornbys "Ministry of Stories"

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:37:15 +0100
Den brittiske författaren Nick Hornby skall öppna, ja, jag tror det är en 
butik, ett slags kulturcentrum kallat Ministry of Stories, som skall inspirera 
ungdomar att skriva. Och brittiska regeringen bjuder in till öppningsfest på 
Downing Street 10:
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/18/nick-hornby-ministry-stories
 
"Children will be lured in by 'monster supply shop' – and volunteer teachers 
including Zadie Smith and Roddy Doyle.
Since 2002, Dave Eggers, the American author best known for his novel A 
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been reinventing himself as 
something of a literacy guru for children. As part of his 826 Valencia 
children's writing project, he has opened after-school clubs across America 
where kids can turn up to develop their creative writing. ...
Now the bestselling novelist Nick Hornby wants to do the same thing for 
Britain. Tomorrow, Hornby, along with art entrepreneurs Ben Payne and Lucy 
Macnab, is going open his new Ministry of Stories – plus the world's first 
supply store for monsters.
The author hopes that a fantastical shopfront will lure children into something 
rather less fantastical, if no less fun: literacy lessons. In the shop, Hornby 
will sell "fang floss" and "human snot", while round the back novelists 
including Zadie Smith, Roddy Doyle and Michael Morpurgo might, on the right 
day, be found teaching children aged from eight to 18 to learn to write a 
little like they do.
If all of this volunteering sounds a bit like that "big society" thing, then 
you are not alone. In fact, Downing Street is so impressed with the venture 
that next week it is throwing Hornby and co a party in No 10.
Hornby's Ministry of Stories will open tomorrow in a patch of real estate in 
Hoxton, east London, and is funded by the Arts Council."

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