The Hunger Games is a young adult novel written by American television writer and novelist Suzanne Collins. It was first published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, in hardcover. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, holds hegemony
over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in
which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts
surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle until only one person is left.
Director:Gary Ross
Writers:Gary Ross (screenplay), Suzanne Collins (screenplay), and 2 more credits »
Stars:Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemswort
The book has been released as a paperback and also as an audiobook and e-book. The Hunger Games
had an initial print of 200,000 – twice doubled from the original
50,000. Since its initial release, the novel has been translated into
26 languages and rights of production have been sold in 38 countries.
The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and
authors. The Hunger Games is the first novel in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire, published on September 1, 2009,and Mockingjay, published on August 24, 2010.
A film adaptation, co-written and co-produced by Collins herself and directed by Gary Ross, was released worldwide on March 23, 2012.
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil
Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to
send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted
punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation
tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which
"Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains.
Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these
Games their entire lives, Katniss is
forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of
drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home
to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that
weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
