Lit For Life - Edition 2015
A spectacular beginning to The Hindu LFL with Eleanor Catton speaking about her work, her approach to writing. She was articulate, simple and expressive and a breath of promise of readable work on a vast canvas, absorb able, and likely to stay with the reader. Here are some interesting ideas she shared:
Reading is 90% of writing. Its the path to writing. (Her trust provides award to writers who will read.)
Reading is an armour to equip us to understand, tackle life.
An Author and their books are like in a relationship. Sometimes we may not want to go back to our earlier writing like a relationship that's over.
Sometimes contemporary writing is difficult to read as too much effort made on the project, and the reader no longer has fun in reading.
We perform our identities.
When writing keep two readers in mind; one who knows about everything you have written and the other who knows nothing about what you have written.
More New Zealand with Prof. Jonathan Gil Harris and his illustrated talk on the First Firangis. Fascinating how all the tales and historical novels came together with his presentation. Noor Jehan had traded with the Portuguese and in fact fell out with them when Jehangir grants the English envoy Sir Thomas Roe an audience. Characters in 'Enchantress of Florence', Feast of Roses, Shadow Princes, In an Antique Land, and more recent No Country and the Anglo Indian. Two remarkable ideas that he suggests:
Becoming Indian is often geographical, where you place your roots.
Body Change in a new environment.
Wonderful skeins of story telling about a multi cultural land, which offered hospitality to immigrants and in time absorbed some of their culture as well! Do not miss this talk if you get the opportunity. Gives Indians a sense of being world citizens for many centuries.
Coincidence: I am at the moment reading Flanagan "The narrow Road to the Deep North"
A spectacular beginning to The Hindu LFL with Eleanor Catton speaking about her work, her approach to writing. She was articulate, simple and expressive and a breath of promise of readable work on a vast canvas, absorb able, and likely to stay with the reader. Here are some interesting ideas she shared:
Reading is 90% of writing. Its the path to writing. (Her trust provides award to writers who will read.)
Reading is an armour to equip us to understand, tackle life.
An Author and their books are like in a relationship. Sometimes we may not want to go back to our earlier writing like a relationship that's over.
Sometimes contemporary writing is difficult to read as too much effort made on the project, and the reader no longer has fun in reading.
We perform our identities.
When writing keep two readers in mind; one who knows about everything you have written and the other who knows nothing about what you have written.
More New Zealand with Prof. Jonathan Gil Harris and his illustrated talk on the First Firangis. Fascinating how all the tales and historical novels came together with his presentation. Noor Jehan had traded with the Portuguese and in fact fell out with them when Jehangir grants the English envoy Sir Thomas Roe an audience. Characters in 'Enchantress of Florence', Feast of Roses, Shadow Princes, In an Antique Land, and more recent No Country and the Anglo Indian. Two remarkable ideas that he suggests:
Becoming Indian is often geographical, where you place your roots.
Body Change in a new environment.
Wonderful skeins of story telling about a multi cultural land, which offered hospitality to immigrants and in time absorbed some of their culture as well! Do not miss this talk if you get the opportunity. Gives Indians a sense of being world citizens for many centuries.
Coincidence: I am at the moment reading Flanagan "The narrow Road to the Deep North"
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