The Hunger Games (novel) The Hunger Games (novel) The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. The book received critical acclaim from major
The Hunger Games (film) William Golding's "Lord of the Flies", "Metropolis", "Blade Runner", "Death Race 2000", and George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Manohla Dargis in "The New York Times" compares it to "Battle Royale", "Ender's Game", and "Twilight", but contrasts "The Hunger Games" in terms of how its "exciting" female protagonist Katniss "rescues herself with resourcefulness, guts and true aim". Steve Rose of "The Guardian" refers to the film as "think "Battle Royale" meets "The Running Man" meets "Survivor". Writing in "The Atlantic", Govindini Murty made a list of touchstones the film alludes to, from the ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilizations to modern references