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Charley Boorman
Actor, Adventurer, Travel Writer – President of Dyslexia Action Charity 🔊 Listen At the time when I was going to school in Ireland people didn’t really have a clue about what it was, so I had to spend a lot […]
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Children’s author and playwright. 🔊 Listen I was bullied at school. I was an undiagnosed dyslexic and dyspraxic, which made me an easy target. The kid who was clumsy and very uncoordinated – so easy to mock. I hated PE […]
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April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875 Artist, Poet and Writer of Children’s Fairy Tales 🔊 Listen Hans Christian Andersen was a 19th century Danish writer. Although a prolific writer of plays, travel books, novels, he is best known his fairy tales, […]
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September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940 Novelist & Short Story Writer 🔊 Listen F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was notoriously bad at spelling. Although he was an avid reader and showed an early talent for writing, Fitzgerald was […]
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born December 23, 1937 Writer of children’s and young adult fiction 🔊 Listen Avi is the pen name adopted by by children’s author Edward Irving Wortis. He has written more than 70 books geared to children and young adults. He won the […]
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12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880 Novelist 🔊 Listen Having made a strenuous effort to understand the symbols he could make nothing of, [Gustave Flaubert] wept giant tears…. For a long time he could not understand the elementary connection […]
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Children’s Book Author & Screenwriter 🔊 Listen People are often surprised to learn that I am dyslexic. They think that being dyslexic would prevent me from being a successful writer. I believe that being dyslexic has helped me as a […]
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Fantasy writer, author of The Sword of Truth series 🔊 Listen I’m a born storyteller. My earliest memories are of telling myself stories. I lived with the characters from the stories in my head. When I was little I remember […]
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Children’s writer and illustrator. 🔊 Listen Dyslexia is not a disability – it’s a gift. It means that I, and many other dyslexic thinkers can portray the world through images because we think in images. I can build worlds, freeze […]
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