Explore cultures other than your own, says David Hair, New Zealander and author of
The Bone Tiki, to young writers who prefer to work within their own comfor
t zone.
Hair is coming to Bangalore to launch his book
Pyre of Queens, published by Penguin Books India. The story is about Ravindra-Raj, the evil sorcerer-king, who devises a deadly secret ritual where he and his seven queens will burn on his pyre, and he will rise again with the powers of Ravana, demon-king of the epic Ramayana. But things go wrong when one queen, the beautiful, spirited Darya, escapes with the help of Aram Dhoop, the court poet
Hair’s first book,
The Bone Tiki, won the Best First Novel award (in the Young Adult Fiction genre of books at the 2010 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards).
The Bone Tiki and its sequel
The Taniwha’s Tear are fantasy novels set in New Zealand.
Before moving to India, Hair worked primarily in financial services and has a degree in history and classical studies. Though he has always been interested in folklore, history, and has a passion for football, writing had always been a life long ambition.”
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