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  • - Who was your favorite character when you were younger?

  • - Let me think…Oh! It was Peter Pan!

  • - Peter Pan? So, do you know James Matthew Barrie?

  • - Not really …Is he one of Peter Pan’s brothers?

  • - Shame on you! James Barrie is the creator of Peter Pan!

  • - You’re right! He was born on May 9th 1860 and he died in 1937.

  • - Exactly, he is a Scottish author and dramatist, he was the ninth child of his family.

  • - Do you know that he graduated from the same university as my sister, Edinburgh University in 1882, then he worked as a journalist and published his first novel? He soon became popular in Scotland.

 

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  • - Do you know how he found inspiration for his best-known work ‘Peter Pan’?

  • - No, tell me.

  • - As he had just divorced, Barrie wanted to escape his difficult home life so he walked in London where he met the Llewelyn Davies Brothers and to put it in a nutshell, he found inspiration in his friendship with them.

  • - Do you know why I admire him? On the one hand, he invented my favorite character! On the other hand, his life is just remarkable because he made his dreams come true even if he was just a child from a family of weavers, now he ranks among the most famous writers in the world.

  • - Absolutely! His most popular book is still a favorite with young and old alike.

                                 

                                                                                                                                       Keltoum

 

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