Conspiracy of Calaspia
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Conspiracy of Calaspia is a fantasy novel written by twin teenage novelists Suresh and Jyoti Guptara
. It is the first book of the Insanity Saga
that follows the story of Bryn Bellyset - a 16 year old heir to an enormously successful drink empire - his fellow barue and others as they race to save the land of Calaspia from an evil force many still believe to be extinct.
The Guptara twins wrote the first draft at the age of eleven. The book reached the bestseller list when the authors were seventeen..
, India
n, and American
companies together launched an international short story writing competition for young people based on Conspiracy of Calaspia , in which the writers must take the Guptara Twins' characters on their own adventure. The top ten prizes are an all-expenses-paid 10-day tour of England's literary sites, with 100 runner-up prizes. Stories will be chosen based on the criteria of creativity
and originality
, and will be judged by an eminent panel consisting of:
The official Calaspia Literary Competition web site is www.calaspia-competition.com
Jyoti Guptara
Jyoti Guptara is a young novelist of British and Indian heritage, best known as co-author of the Insanity Saga .-Biography:...
. It is the first book of the Insanity Saga
Insanity Saga
The Insanity Saga is a fantasy series written by twin teenage novelists Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara.Book One in this saga is Conspiracy of Calaspia, the first draft of which the Guptara Twins penned at the age of eleven. It was published when the authors were 17 and became a bestseller...
that follows the story of Bryn Bellyset - a 16 year old heir to an enormously successful drink empire - his fellow barue and others as they race to save the land of Calaspia from an evil force many still believe to be extinct.
The Guptara twins wrote the first draft at the age of eleven. The book reached the bestseller list when the authors were seventeen..
Calaspia competition
In 2007, IrishIreland
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, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n, and American
United States
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companies together launched an international short story writing competition for young people based on Conspiracy of Calaspia , in which the writers must take the Guptara Twins' characters on their own adventure. The top ten prizes are an all-expenses-paid 10-day tour of England's literary sites, with 100 runner-up prizes. Stories will be chosen based on the criteria of creativity
Creativity
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs...
and originality
Originality
Originality is the aspect of created or invented works by as being new or novel, and thus can be distinguished from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or derivative works....
, and will be judged by an eminent panel consisting of:
- Gurcharan DasGurcharan DasGurcharan Das , , is an Indian author, commentator and public intellectual. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata...
, business guru, columnist & playwright; - Bianca JaggerBianca JaggerBianca Jagger is a Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and model...
the renowned social and human rights advocate; - Dr Michael Nobel, great-grandnephew of the founder of the Nobel Prizes, and immediate past-President of the Nobel Family Society;
- Alec Sokolow, Academy Award nominated screenwriterScreenwriterScreenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
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, Garfield, Cheaper by the DozenCheaper by the DozenCheaper by the Dozen is a biographical book written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey that tells the story of time and motion study and efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and their twelve children. The book focuses on the many years the...
, and Toy StoryToy StoryToy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...
); - G. P. Taylor, best-selling author (ShadowmancerShadowmancerShadowmancer is a fantasy novel by Graham Taylor , first published privately in 2002. It is a Christian allegory in the form of a fantasy adventure, akin to C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. Taylor wrote the book to counteract what he saw as a rise in atheist propaganda in children's books...
, Wormwood, TersiasTersiasTersias is the second sequel to the fantasy novel Shadowmancer by Graham P. Taylor and direct sequel to Wormwood. Tersias was followed in 2006 by The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street...
)
The official Calaspia Literary Competition web site is www.calaspia-competition.com
Official
- Official Guptara Twins Web Presence
- Dutch publisher's Calaspia Website
- Web Presence of German Publishing House Rowohlt
Interviews
- Recorded audio of interview with Guptara Twins from BBC World ServiceBBC World ServiceThe BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
- Jyoti Guptara talks about their lives Recorded audio of interview, Jyoti Guptara talks to Hans Fischer of SwissEduc
- Business Standard Q&A, 24 December 2006, New Delhi