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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 12 March 2020
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt’s book tackles forgiveness

By ALICIA RANCILIO Schwarzenegger Pratt: I
Associated Press don’t actually know who
NEW YORK (AP) — Kather- that would be. A lot of
ine Schwarzenegger Pratt times I think of people who
has made a career of writ- are no longer on this earth
ing what she knows, from that I would like to spend
teaching about healthy extra time with and I often
body image to grappling will think about my grand-
with entering the real world ma, especially as I’ve got-
after graduating college. ten older. When you’re
Her latest book, “ The Gift little you kind of take your
of Forgiveness: Inspiring grandparents for granted
Stories from Those Who and when you’re older you
Have Overcome the Un- wish you could go back
forgivable, ” is a deep and talk to them about
dive into various stories on certain life things. So that’s
forgiveness. Schwarzeneg- probably who I would think
ger Pratt, the eldest child about — both my grand-
of actor and politician Ar- parents — to have more
nold Schwarzenegger and time with.
broadcast journalist Maria AP: You do a lot of animal
Shriver, writes in the book advocacy and you have
that she came up with the This March 9, 2020 photo shows Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt posing for a portrait in New York your own dog, Maverick,
idea when struggling with to promote her book "The Gift of Forgiveness: Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome whom you’ve written a
how to forgive a friend who the Unforgivable." children’s book about. Plus,
she had a falling out with. Associated Press you have a farm with your
She interviewed 22 people, Associated Press, Schwar- interview not knowing how found it very helpful for my- husband, actor Chris Pratt.
including kidnapping victim zenegger Pratt talked much they would open up self and therapeutic. If you Talk about why animals are
Elizabeth Smart and Tanya about writing, advocating or what they would give had asked me when I was so important to you.
Brown, the sister of murder for animals, and of course, me in the interview and ev- 10 years old if I would be Schwarzenegger Pratt: I’ve
victim Nicole Brown Simp- forgiveness. ery single person was just so writing books, I don’t know always been a big animal
son, and Sebastian Marro- AP: You talk to people for incredible to talk to, so in- that I would say that, but I lover. When I adopted my
quin, the son of drug king- the book who’ve experi- spiring and raw and open think it’s been such a bless- dog, Maverick, and be-
pin Pablo Escobar, about enced some pretty heavy and vulnerable. ing for me in my life. I’ve came introduced to the
their own experiences with circumstances. Were you AP: What did you ultimately been able to take situa- animal rescue world, it was
forgiveness. nervous to do those inter- take away on forgiveness? tions and topics that I have such a blessing for me. To
Schwarzenegger Pratt says views? Schwarzenegger Pratt: For struggled with and have be a voice for the voice-
the biggest lesson learned Schwarzenegger Pratt: some people it comes very looked at others struggling less and advocate on their
is that forgiveness is not a You’re always nervous easily and naturally and with and it’s driven me to behalf is a really important
one-size-fits-all process. when interviewing people they can just decide to write about these topics to thing for me.
“There isn’t one way to that you don’t know about forgive someone and be help other people. AP: You’re embarking on a
forgive, there’s not a right a topic that’s very intense done with it. And for a lot AP: Your dad is Arnold book tour. Is it hard to leave
way, a wrong way, there’s like forgiveness. I reached of people, myself included, Schwarzenegger. Your Maverick at home?
only your way,” she said. “I out to everybody and it’s an ongoing process. So, mom is Maria Shriver and Schwarzenegger Pratt:
would never be able to tell didn’t know anyone be- it’s about being OK with it. a member of the Kennedy Yes, but he has the great-
somebody how to practice forehand and just blindly AP: Did you want to be a family. You must’ve met est family support system.
forgiveness specifically in asked them if they would writer growing up? so many notable people My mom is amazing with
their lives because it’s so be willing to sit down and Schwarzenegger Pratt: I al- throughout your life. Is there him and my sister, Christina,
unique to their situation.” talk to me about forgive- ways would write in journals anyone you haven’t met takes him for sleepovers
In an interview with The ness. I went into every single when I was younger and yet? and I’m so grateful.q

Leslie Marmon Silko wins $100,000 prize from arts academy

By HILLEL ITALIE have the same underpin- ems and stories and for 2018 to Thomas Pynchon. for prose writing and Mary
Associated Press nings, mythologically, that such novels as “Ceremo- The academy awarded Ruefle won the $20,000 Ar-
NEW YORK (AP) — Leslie the Greeks and Romans ny” and “Almanac of the prizes to 19 writers overall, thur Rense Poetry Prize.
Marmon Silko, winner of and Scandinavians have Dead.” She said winning 13 of them women. The Valeria Luiselli received a
a lifetime achievement given to the culture.” the Walker award encour- honors include $10,000 $10,000 prize for “a young
award from the American The academy announced aged her about the cur- prizes for “exceptional writer of considerable liter-
Academy of Arts and Let- Wednesday that the rent state of reading. achievement” to Viet ary talent” for her novel
ters, sees universal reach 72-year-old Silko is this “It has seemed that litera- Thanh Nguyen, Wayne “Lost Children Archive.”
in her writings about her year’s winner of the Chris- ture and books and writ- Koestenbaum, Marie Ara- The E.M. Forster Award,
Laguna Pueblo heritage. topher Lightfoot Walker ing have gone into de- na, Sandra Lim and four a $10,000 honor for an
“I’m especially proud of Award for “significant cline in the digital age,” others. Author and foreign outstanding young writer
asserting the notion that contribution” to American she said. “I had forgotten correspondent Janine di from Ireland or the United
we indigenous people are literature. A key member that there are people who Giovanni won the $25,000 Kingdom, was given to the
citizens of the world,” she of the so-called “Native still love literature, serious Blake-Dodd prize for non- Belfast poet Stephen Sex-
said in a recent telephone American Renaissance” literature.” fiction, Christine Schutt re- ton.
interview. “I’ve tried in my that began in the 1960s, The Lightfoot award is a ceived the $20,000 Kath- The academy is an honor
fiction to reflect that we she is known for her po- biannual prize first given in erine Anne Porter Award society founded in 1898.q