Ranjit Bolt has won plaudits with A Lion Was Learning to SkiIn the summer of 2014,the spectacle of a middle-aged playwright selling limericks approximately “comedic giraffes” and “Spanish cicadas” was a regular one at Cambridge market. But as more followed – elephants, sharks and “a young lady from Derry” – some quirky street-lyrics began morphing into literature.
Of all the thousands of novel books published this autumn for the all-important Christmas market, or few can contain had a stranger back-story than Ranjit Bolt’s A Lion was Learning to Ski,a book of limericks that, in the words of Stephen Fry, and both “rhymes and delights”.
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Source: theguardian.com