Featured Interview With Harsimran Kaur
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m Harsimran Kaur, and I’m a 16-year-old author and an English language enthusiast who also happens to have an affinity with the history of the Indian Partition. I am born and raised in a small village on the outskirts of a city called Jalandhar in India. I’ve always been an ardent fan of literature since a very young age. I was raised reading Mark Twain and Roald Dahl. So in a way, you can assume that books have raised me along with my parents!
I recently made a national record and an Asian record (‘Grand Master’ for authoring a book containing different colours of poetry), which is given to me by the India Book of Records (registered with the Government of India) and Asia Book of Records, respectively.
I don’t have any pets now, but I fancy having a dog and a cat.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
As far as I can remember, I started writing poems and several ramblings around ten. I had recently finished reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain at that time, which made me write a poem about protecting our planet (don’t know what element from the book inspired me to write that) and a short story about a mischievous kid called Thomas. I titled it ‘Some Years Without Parents,’ which is an expression that I indeed consider pretentious.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
If any people inspire me in writing, they are the greatest minds of the past century like Franz Kafka, Kahlil Gibran, Robert Frost, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope, and Toni Morrison. I also idolize Michelle Obama and Arundhati Roy – and I can’t emphasize the fact enough. My mother is also a source of my utmost inspiration, and I admire her for that.
I love reading literary fiction, modern classics, and poetry. I also love to read translated works of literature from different countries because that’s how globalization is facilitated, one of the aspects that I love the most about books. I’m prominently interested in American and British literature, which will most probably be the focus of my higher studies.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book, ‘Clementines on my Poetry Table: A Poetry Collection‘ came out on March 17, 2021. It is a collection of poems written between December 2019 and June 2020 about topics ranging from Zoom meetings to donuts. It is currently available on all the Amazon Marketplaces and all the royalty received at my end for the book will go to the Give India Foundation’s urgent COVID relief fund. You can follow me on Instagram @harsimranwritesbooks for more updates regarding my books.
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