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Interviewer: Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone to the weekly ‘Let’s-Talk-Books’ show! Hello Hunger-Gamers and welcome to ‘Let’s- talk-books!’ I am your host, John Smith, and today I bring you an amazing author, the winner of the ‘Teen’s Choice Award’, Suzanne Collins! How are you today Suzanne? Suzanne Collins: I’m well thank you, it’s an honour to be here! Interviewer: Wow, you’re an award winning author of such an amazing novel which has now been made into a feature film. It must be a great feeling! Suzanne Collins: Yeah, it really is. To have your work recognised internationally is such an amazing feat. When I first wrote the book I could have never expected it to be such big hit on an international scale. Interviewer: So first off, how did this all start? What were you doing before your whole Hunger Games series? …show more content…

Interviewer: Oh that’s amazing. Have you always wanted to be an author? Suzanne Collins: Yes, you could say that I had the idea of The Hunger Games when I was a little kid from the Greek mythologies so I say it could be my all-time dream to come true. Interviewer: Your ‘all-time dream come true’. Wow, I see. So tell me, have you ever, in your wildest dreams, imagine the book turning into an extremely popular major motion

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