Create Compelling Characters Write Funny Fiction : Arundhati Venkatesh

Create Compelling Characters Write Funny Fiction Workshop with Arundhati Venkatesh. Suitable for Ages 8+ With the creator of Bookasura, Petu Pumpkin and the Great Minds at Work series featuring Ramanujan, S. Chandrasekhar, C.V. Raman. Pick funny names, wacky looks & more! Learn how to mine your own life to write funny fiction. Come with your ideas, writing samples for tips and feedback... or just oodles of enthusiasm! About Arundhati Venkatesh Arundhati Venkatesh is an award-winning Indian children's book author based in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Known for her humorous and highly imaginative storytelling style, she weaves narrative threads around a diverse spectrum of subjects ranging from monsters and childhood activism to history, mathematics, and science. Before establishing herself as a prominent figure in contemporary Indian children's literature, she attended school across five different towns and worked professionally across four continents. Among her books is the bestselling Bookasura, which won the Comic Con 2015 Best Publication for Children Award, was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award 2016 and is on Amazon’s ‘100 Children’s Books to Read in a Lifetime’. Her middle-grade novel, Ramanujan: From Zero to Infinity, is bestselling as well and won the TokaBox Top South Asian Children’s Book Honor for 2022. Arundhati’s books in the Petu Pumpkin series – Tiffin Thief, Tooth Troubles and Cheater Peter – have been on Flipkart’s #1 and #3 positions for children, won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award 2015 for India, Middle East and Asia, and been shortlisted for the the Neev Book Award 2019. Her three latest releases all happen to be hilarious books for ages 10+: PETU PUMPKIN: Freedom Fighter, RAMANUJAN: From Zero to Infinity, RAMAN & CHANDRASEKHAR: Lighting Up the Stars.