Author Shamini Flint Visits BSKL

Shamini describes herself as an author, lawyer, teacher and soccer player and has written for all ages from primary through to secondary.

Shamini will explore with our primary students themes of resilience and the inspiration for her successful 'Diary of ..." series. Shamini tells us: "I grew up in a small town in Malaysia, more of a fishing village really that didn’t even have a bookshop. I was the only Indian kid in a school of Chinese and Malay children who didn’t understand me, teachers who thought I was weird because I wanted to play soccer even though I was a girl and parents who were too busy yelling at each other to pay any attention to me. As a consequence of this fairly difficult upbringing (although there was often a very funny side) I feel very strongly about children finding their own identity and developing the resilience and perseverance to deal with difficult passages in life."

Our secondary students can look forward to Shamini discussing her journey from achieving her master’s in Law at Cambridge, to practising law in Malaysia and Singapore, to becoming a popular crime fiction author.

There is a poster from the Singapore police department which states ‘Low Crime doesn’t mean no Crime!’ It adorns taxies on the island state and causes foreigners to stop and stare. This slogan might be one of the reasons that many people do not think ‘crime fiction’ when they think of the Asian novel. However, Shamini will explain to our secondary students why she believes that dipping our toes into the bloody bath of crime fiction writing is a great way to explore the tensions (as well as the curries and the beer!) within modern Asian society. We can't wait for our students to join Shamini Flint and Inspector Singh (‘It’s impossible not to warm to the portly, sweating, dishevelled, wheezing Inspector Singh – the Guardian) as she takes us on a journey through the back streets of Asia.

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