Anusha Bhama Gukhool

The Pepileni are an original creation by Anusha Bhama Gukhool in Italian literature. They live inside an original imaginative world, a therapeutic fairy tale that uses a new mythology to explore and explain absence, addiction, how children perceive themselves, their relationship with the world around them and their emotions. It speaks in particular to parents and to the world of gifted children with high cognitive potential.

I teach English in Turin and I write. Between those two things there is one single question that has guided my work for years: how does the intelligence of the person in front of me actually work?

I do not start from the programme, I start from the learner. From how they listen, how they get bored, how they light up, how much time they need before speaking. A language is learned when it stops being a subject and becomes a way of being in a relationship.

Out of that practice came Freedom Speaks English, my teaching method, and later Solomon J. nel villaggio dei Pepileni: a fairy tale for the children who feel too much, and for the adults who were those children.

Pepilandia, the village of the book, is where I put everything school rarely has time for: intensity, wonder, solitude, the right to ask difficult questions.

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