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World-renowned writer Brandon Sanderson pleased a legion of adoring fans during a book signing event yesterday, April 25th, at the 7th Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2015) when he signed several visitors’ books.
The American author has published eight solo novels throughout the past decade, alongside popular series Tor-Elantris, the Mistborn books, Warbreaker, The Way of Kings, the young adult fantasy Rithmatist collection as well as four books in the middle grade Alcatraz Versus the Evil Liberians series from Scholastics.
A fervent reader from a very young age, Brandon’s presence at the SCRF 2015 has inspired many children at festival to pursue their love of literature. Speaking about the event, he said: “I want to thank Sharjah for having me in for the Children Children’s Reading Festival, it is fantastic - the hospitality is amazing here, the people are a lot of fun and there are tons of readers.”
The writer’s infatuation with fantasy came by way of his eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Reader, who gave him a copy of Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly, and he soon became a fan of authors like Robert Jordan, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, Melanie Rawn, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school.
He received his Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Brigham Young University in 2004, where he still teaches a class in science fiction and fantasy. Brandon has won the David Gemmell Legend Award in 2011 for his work titled The Way of Kings, and is the only author to make the short list for that same award six times in four years. Besides having having had his books published in over twenty languages, Sanderson has won 11 awards in the past ten years, and has been nominated for more than fourteen.
Sanderson is also the collaborative “ghost” writer for Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, After Jordan passed away in 2007, his widow approached Brandon with the proposal to finish her late husband’s epic fantasy series, of which the final book - A Memory of Light - was released in 2013. His award-winning young adult novel, Steelheart, was released by Delacorte in September that same year.
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