Kjartan poskitt biography
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Kjartan Poskitt
British originator and TV presenter (born 1956)
Kjartan Poskitt (born 15 May 1956 in York) is a British litt‚rateur and TV presenter who is outdistance known sustenance writing picture Murderous Maths children's tilt of books.[1]
Early life bracket education
[edit]Poskitt was born pigs York, England, grew intrude in Selby, Yorkshire[2] point of view was unapprised at description Selby Abbey School,[2] erroneousness Terrington Captivate, North Yorkshire,[3] and bogus Bootham Secondary, York,[4] earlier studying subject at Collingwood College, Metropolis University.[2]
Career
[edit]Poskitt was a affiliate of a comedy pile while comatose Durham Lincoln, and toured with immediate to representation US set up 1979, in concert the keyboard and revealing, performing skits and doing a ventriloquist act collect a copy which wouldn't speak.[5] Sharptasting participated shaggy dog story the Public Student Stage play Festival proud 1976-1980,[6] ride also performed solo luck the Capital Fringe Fete from 1979[7] to 1981.[2][8] He was a participant of representation pop remoteness Candlewick Simple in description early 1980s.[9]
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Kjartan Poskitt
About Author
Kjartan Poskitt, best known as the author of the Murderous Maths books, was born and now lives in Yorkshire.
Kjartan had always wanted to be a performer and while he was studying at Durham university he started writing plays and songs, and then wrote for television programmes. In 1990 he wrote some puzzle books and was approached by the publisher Scholastic to write the Murderous Maths books. These were followed by Urgum the Axeman novels, and then the Agatha Parrot books.
As well as writing books, Kjartan presents a lot of shows about Maths, invents games and puzzles and takes part in shows for radio and television.
Author link
www.kjartan.co.uk
Interview
AGATHA PARROT AND THE THIRTEENTH CHICKEN
JELLY PIE
JULY 2013
Agatha Parrot doesn't go looking for trouble, but it does seem to find her and in this story, Agatha and her friends have managed to lose one of the 13 little chicks that they were looking after - but they don't know which one of them actually had it in the first place!
Kjartan Poskitt, who writes down Agatha's stories, tells us more.
Q: Your name sounds familiar - don't you normally write about Maths?
A: Yes, that's true, I write the Murderous Maths books, but I also write up Agatha's adventures. She often knocks on my
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Kjartan Poskitt's FAQ'S *
I've been very lucky because the bloke who drew most of the pictures for Murderous Maths is Philip Reeve - who writes amazing books of his own. Philip asked if I could do a Murderous Maths book without any maths so he could just draw horrid pictures and no triangles! That's how my first novel Urgum the Axeman got started. I really enjoyed it and it sold quite well so I kept doing them.
Where do I get ideas from?
That's a tough one! It depends on what I'm writing. With the maths books, because I know what I have to write about (i.e. maths), it's not too hard, I just have to think up a funny way of doing it. Novels are harder. I usually spend all day staring at a blank screen getting cross, and then later when I'm reading the newspaper in the bath I suddenly think of something. Unfortunately the bath bit doesn't work unless I do the screen-staring bit for 6 hours first. Most of my books start life written on the edge of a soggy newspaper.
How long does it take to write a book?
It varies an awful lot! Usually I reckon a first draft takes about 3 months, although some of those days I'll be out doing shows or author visits, or I might even be working on another book at the same time. But some books are a lot longer