Author Michael Morpurgo says his writing about war shows “reconciliation is the only solution”

Author Michael Morpurgo says his writing about war shows “reconciliation is the only solution”

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.My 1999 novel Kensuke’s Kingdom was inspired by a story I heard on the radio. A Japanese soldier had hidden himself on an island in the Pacific after the end of the Second World War and was found there nearly 30 years later. He became my Japanese Robinson Crusoe of the 20th century.But I wanted, also, to weave into my island adventure story the times into which I had been born, to set the story…