Saturday marked the end of thenational novel-writing race; Sunday the start of the international NaNoWriMo(National Novel Writing Month). Both online creative writing crusades helpparticipants battle writers’ block and fight compulsive slacking to finisha novel within a set period of time.The writing challenge in Indiacalled Novel Race was started in June this year to call aspiring novelists topen...
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The novel is set in Warwickshire in the late Forties, when England is still trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the war. The old order is changing. And accommodating the new means that the gentry, represented in the novel by the Ayreses, must die a natural death. Since numerous writers, notably Evelyn Waugh, have already dealt with the decay of the English aristocracy in the Thirties and...
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Salman Rushdie wouldn’t mind writing one, it seems. Some of the world’s best literary talents are already into it. Scottish author Ian Rankin, one of the finest contemporary practitioners of crime fiction, has already written one featuring John Constantine from the Hellblazer series.The graphic novel, the comic book in its more “serious” avatar, has opened up a whole new world. Or worlds, where superheroes...
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the ninth winning novel to take its inspiration from India. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the Booker Prize.The Indian rights for Adiga's new novel have been acquired by HarperCollins India.Unlike his first novel which was set in New Delhi, Adiga's second book is set in the business capital of the country, Mumbai.is a sweeping novel about contemporary India, more particularly Mumbai. Adiga's...
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After winning the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, "The White Tiger", Indian-born author Aravind Adiga will publish his second venture "Last Man in the Tower" in early 2011, the author's publisher said Thursday.The Indian rights for Adiga's new novel have been acquired by HarperCollins India.Unlike his first novel which was set in New Delhi, Adiga's second book is set in the business capital...
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those who hope to write their novel ‘some day’, here’s a chance to dive right into it. This is the tenth year of the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a US-based online ‘literary marathon’ that began in San Francisco Bay Area in July 1999 with 21 participants. Till November 10 this year, the site had 1,58,716 authors registered worldwide. From India, nearly 250 authors (75 per cent of whom...
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a disgraced Communist party official who makes a new life with a community of boat people has won the Man Asian Literary Prize.Su Tong was awarded £10,000 at a ceremony in Hong Kong for his novel The Boat Redemption.The author is best known for his novel Wives and Concubines, the basis of the 1991 film Raise the Red Lantern.The three writers on the jury, which included Ireland's Colm Toibin, said the...
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When you think of an Indian graphic novel, the first thing that is likely to strike your mind is mythology. From Liquid Studio's, all seem to be harping on the rich mythology embedded within the Indian culture. There are many other graphic novels in the country which are not based on mythology. But then, are they so popular?Indian mythology has been around for so long that it's become very easy to...
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"Stephen Brown and Dan Brown are similar in several significant respects," declares the autobiographical blurb in this hoot of a book. "They even share the same DNA (debatable narrative ability)."Six years since the publication of The Da Vinci Code, the spoofs it has spawned are still flowing thick and fast – and here is such a one, self-described as "a parody of a thriller that doesn't exist".The...
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After winning the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, "The White Tiger", Indian-born author Aravind Adiga will publish his second venture "Last Man in the Tower" in early 2011, the author's publisher said Thursday.The Indian rights for Adiga's new novel have been acquired by HarperCollins India.Unlike his first novel which was set in New Delhi, Adiga's second book is set in the business capital...
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