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The Moving Finger: Writers on Writing
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Om Books International
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Hilda David | Francis Jarman
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English
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Om Books International
Author:
Hilda David | Francis Jarman
Language:
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If like Shashi Deshpande you have wondered about the why, how and what you want to write, here’s a collection of essays that attempts to demystify “that peculiar activity called writing”. With great personal honesty, Indian and international novelists, poets, dramatists, scriptwriters, humorists, columnists and translators, whether renowned award-winners, experienced professionals, or rising stars of the literary scene, contribute useful (and often surprising) insights into their respective genres. Be it writing about sex, or writing noir, writing about food or for the screen, writing about psychopaths or fantasy fiction or for children, let those who have been through the agony and the ecstasy, the delights and the pitfalls, guide you. Though there is no one way of writing—a vocation individualistic and idiosyncratic like no other—and each writer will have to find his or her own way, the twenty-six essays in this anthology will provide a roadmap on navigating what Martin Amis describes as a “deeply mysterious process”.
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If like Shashi Deshpande you have wondered about the why, how and what you want to write, here’s a collection of essays that attempts to demystify “that peculiar activity called writing”. With great personal honesty, Indian and international novelists, poets, dramatists, scriptwriters, humorists, columnists and translators, whether renowned award-winners, experienced professionals, or rising stars of the literary scene, contribute useful (and often surprising) insights into their respective genres. Be it writing about sex, or writing noir, writing about food or for the screen, writing about psychopaths or fantasy fiction or for children, let those who have been through the agony and the ecstasy, the delights and the pitfalls, guide you. Though there is no one way of writing—a vocation individualistic and idiosyncratic like no other—and each writer will have to find his or her own way, the twenty-six essays in this anthology will provide a roadmap on navigating what Martin Amis describes as a “deeply mysterious process”.
About Author
Hilda David is a novelist, stage director, and teacher. Until retirement, she was a professor of English at the Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce in Pune, and coordinator of the Centre for Liberal Arts, where she taught Advanced Creative Writing, Literature and the Supernatural, and Crime, Law, and Literature. Dr David has been a consultant to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coordinated and organised the Ibsen Festivals in Pune and Delhi, and was chosen by the English Speaking Union to represent India at the Shakespeare Workshop in London in 2008. Her works have been translated into Hindi, Urdu, and Kannada. She is the co- editor, with Francis Jarman, of India Diversity (Om, 2017) and Text Wars (Oxford, 2021).
Francis Jarman is a novelist, playwright, and critic. Until retirement, he taught English, comparative cultural studies, and intercultural communication at Hildesheim University, Germany. He has also taught or lectured at more than twenty other universities, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, including being a scholar in residence at Symbiosis, Pune, and a visiting professor at American College, Madurai. Dr Jarman is the co-editor, with Hilda David, of India Diversity (Om, 2017) and Text Wars (Oxford, 2021). His novels, published by Wildside in the US, include the Lemnos science fiction trilogy (2011–16); the historical fantasy series The Gardens of the West (2015–ongoing), and the campus thriller Cold from Your Breath (2019).
Francis Jarman is a novelist, playwright, and critic. Until retirement, he taught English, comparative cultural studies, and intercultural communication at Hildesheim University, Germany. He has also taught or lectured at more than twenty other universities, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, including being a scholar in residence at Symbiosis, Pune, and a visiting professor at American College, Madurai. Dr Jarman is the co-editor, with Hilda David, of India Diversity (Om, 2017) and Text Wars (Oxford, 2021). His novels, published by Wildside in the US, include the Lemnos science fiction trilogy (2011–16); the historical fantasy series The Gardens of the West (2015–ongoing), and the campus thriller Cold from Your Breath (2019).
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