It is quite a universal instinct, when reading a book, listening to music, or looking at a painting, to wonder what experience in the artiste’s life inspired that work. Many established authors credit their literary inspiration to a novelist or poet – classic, contemporary, in between – read in childhood or early adulthood that sparked the realisation that this is what they too, are meant to do. The story of inspiration can be as gripping as the work it inspired. Listen to successful authors revealing their literary coups de foudre.
Session presented by Title Waves
Ashwin Sanghi ranks among India’s highest selling English fiction authors. He has written several bestsellers; The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, and a New York Times bestselling crime thriller with James Patterson. He has been included by Forbes India in their Celebrity 100 and is a Crossword Popular Choice Award winner.
More InfoCauvery Madhavan is an author and writer. She lives in Ireland where she moved to from India.
More InfoIra Mukhoty is the author of Akbar: The Great Mughal; Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire; and Heroines: Powerful Indian Women in Myth and History.
More InfoTaran N. Khan’s works have been widely published in India and internationally, including in Guernica, Al Jazeera, the Caravan and Himal Southasian.
More InfoRehana Munir is an independent writer on culture and lifestyle, she has a weekly humour column in HT Brunch, and a cinema column in Arts Illustrated magazine.
More InfoFestival Inauguration followed by The Enduring Power Of Words.
Ian McEwan live in conversation with Anil Dharker.
From The Particular To The Universal.
Howard Jacobson in conversation with Karthika VK.
Form, technique, and language.