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Suzanne Collins

This Easter's hit movie, The Hunger Games, is based on a best-selling book trilogy. Gerry Northam profiles its author, Suzanne Collins.

With The Hunger Games topping cinema box-office charts, Gerry Northam profiles Suzanne Collins, the children's author who wrote the best-selling books on which the film is based. Her trilogy, set in a post-apocalypse America, is said to have been inspired by a combination of Greek myth and reality television as well as Collins' own upbringing as the daughter of an air-force officer who served in Vietnam. So how much do we know about the woman behind the phenomenon now being described as the US equivalent of Harry Potter?
Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane.

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Sun 8 Apr 2012 17:40

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  • Sat 7 Apr 2012 19:00
  • Sun 8 Apr 2012 05:45
  • Sun 8 Apr 2012 17:40

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