Marek Bekerman

I have always been writing ever since I learnt to spell while staying in bed at home for three months after breaking my right leg, while other children could do it together in a classroom. To kill the endless hours spent on my own, I invented stories and thought up more stories, and wrote them up with my left hand. But then, my right leg healed and all I had left was to return to school which pretty much put a stop to my creative writing for many years. For a time, I wrote academic articles, and then wrote and edited news and features at the BBC before becoming an academic again. It was right then that my left hand rebelled and demanded writing poetry, short stories, children's books and scripts, and this time I could not desist.