Writers who try to tailor for another medium betray the one they work in! It is a wonderful thing when my stories are adapted by other artists for screen and stage, but I like them to tailor my stories for the medium they work with. HOME: When you were writing the novel, did you do so with at the back of your mind an idea that one day it would find its way on to a stage and/or screen?ĬF: I think that would ruin every book. The idea that he would be a fire-eater came about when I was watching some fire-eaters in a medieval market in Germany. Shane Bukke and Scott Lucas: How did you come up with the name Dustfinger?ĬF: He brought the name himself – there was never a doubt about what he would be called and who he would be. By being curious about the world and about yourself. Kayleigh Howarth: How do you become an author?ĬF: By writing and reading. And then there is of course the question we all have from time to time of whether we are in a story.
Keira Bragg: How did you come up with the idea for the book?ĬF: I was always a book eater and wanted to write about the feeling that characters from a book often feel as real and close as friends, because the writer tells us so much about them (more than we usually know about real people).
We caught up with the author, Cornelia Funke about her work, and as part of our World Duty Free storywriting competition, a quartet of Year Seven pupils of Newall Green High School in Wythenshawe – Keira Bragg, Kayleigh Howarth, Shane Bukke and Scott Lucas – also got in on the act… Our Christmas production, Inkheart is a thrilling family adventure.
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