The Moving Finger (Paperback)

Hilda David

ISBN 10: 9353769795 / ISBN 13: 9789353769796

Published by OM Books International, New Delhi, 2024

About this Item

Paperback. If like Shashi Deshpande you have wondered about the why, how and what you want to write, heres 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 writinga vocation individualistic and idiosyncratic like no otherand 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Moving Finger (Paperback)
• Publisher: OM Books International, New Delhi
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9353769795
• ISBN 13: 9789353769796
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the 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.|Francis Jarman is a novelist, playwright, and critic. Until retirement, he taught English, comparative cultural studies, and intercultural communication at Hildesheim University, Germany.