https://www.pitara.com/tags/young-authors/Recent content in Young Authors on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/news-for-kids/world-news/eight-year-old-rules-the-publishing-world/Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:57:23 +0000https://www.pitara.com/news-for-kids/world-news/eight-year-old-rules-the-publishing-world/<p><strong>Where: San Francisco, USA</strong></p> <p>July 1, 2000: The literary world is in a fix. Poets, scholars and publishers cannot believe their ears. An eight-year-old has accomplished what most of them believe is impossible.</p> <figure class="w-64 sm:float-right sm:ml-4"> <a href="https://www.pitara.com/media/news-world-15_1.gif" aria-label="Link to larger image"> <img src="https://www.pitara.com/media/news-world-15_1_hu_e005c2004f49ae8d.gif" width="320" height="349" alt="Eight year old rules the publishing world [Illustration by Sudheer Nath]" loading="lazy"> </a> <figcaption> Eight year old rules the publishing world [Illustration by Sudheer Nath] </figcaption> </figure> <p>Sahara Sunday Spain, has received a record advance of £66,000 from the publisher HarperCollins for a book of her poems. That amounts to $100,000 – quite a large sum even for an adult considering that it is for a poetry collection. Even the well-known British poet Ted Hughes received 50,000 pounds for his last collection of poems.</p>