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Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins is an American author and television writer who is best known as the author of the young adult dystopian fiction book series The Hunger Games. She is also the author of the children's fantasy series The Underland Chronicles.
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culture · American author and television writer (born 1962) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · children's writer · executive producer · journalist · television writer · also Suzanne Collins, Suzanne Marie Collins, Collins
Born 10 August 1962 · Q228624
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I was very tired … and I was flipping though images on reality television where these young people were competing for a million dollars or whatever, then I was seeing footage from the Iraq war, and these two things began to fuse together in a very unsettling way, and that is the moment where I got the idea for Katniss
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2026· 12 entries
“The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”
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“I was very tired … and I was flipping though images on reality television where these young people were competing for a million dollars or whatever, then I was seeing footage from the Iraq war, and these two things began to fuse together in a very unsettling way, and that is the moment where I got the idea for Katniss”
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“s TV before turning to novels. She co-wrote the screenplay of The Hunger Games and is married to a TV actor – so knows a bit about the media circus – but she doesn”
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“Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem.”
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“You know, where I come from, we don't think much of someone who sneaks up and stabs a person in their sleep.”
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“I thought I detected in you a sense of fair play. Most dangerous in the Underland, boy.”
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“If you think back, my comments were very open to interpretation. And you happen to be easily misled. As for the queen, who is difficult to lead anywhere... I have always been and intend to be entirely straightforward.”
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“Ladies and gentlemen, let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!”
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“I wonder what Gale made of the incident for a moment and then I push the whole thing out of my mind becouse for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well together in my thoughts.”
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“Remember, we're madly in love, so it‘s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
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“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever.”
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins review – second Hunger Games prequel is not for the faint-hearted
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Author Suzanne Collins announces fifth Hunger Games book
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Geffen Award (2021).
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2020· 2 entries
Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,220 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age” in PLOS Medicine — cited 12,486 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Forbes reported that Collins has a net worth of $55 million, making her No
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Children's bookshop prize (2010).
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“My Name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in The Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead...”
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Published “The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project” in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society — cited 18,867 times.
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1991· 2 entries
As a writer for children's television shows
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Collins met Charles "Cap" Pryor at Indiana University and they married in 1992
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1989· 1 entry
Collins earned her Master of Fine Arts in dramatic writing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts
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1985· 1 entry
With a double major in theater and telecommunications
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1962· 2 entries
Born 1962-08-10.
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In Hartford, Connecticut, to Jane Brady Collins (born 1931) and Lieutenant Colonel Michael John Collins (1931–2003), a U
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