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Life experiences undoubtedly contribute to any author’s work, however, few writers would admit it as readily as Atwood. During her address and in the interview, Atwood liberally provided her listeners with autobiographical anectdotes that have appeared, only slightly disguised, in her fiction. In fact, Harvard provided the setting for her critically acclaimed 1986 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale...
...than half of the country - and they're talking like incumbents. Alliance leader President Buranhuddin Rabbani reminded the world on the eve of the talks that he remains Afghanistan's legal head of state, not only in the minds of his own supporters but also according to the juridical fiction maintained in the United Nations these past five years by an international community reluctant to recognize the Taliban. Also by virtue of the fact that his troops occupy the capital. Rabbani keep s insisting that he's willing to share power, but he also made clear last week that...
...Vidiadhar is also a great prose stylist and innovator. In The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World, he has evolved a signature blend of autobiography, artifice and journalism that tests (even by today's liberal definitions) the limits of conventional fiction. Half A Life (Knopf; 211 pages), the latest hybrid, begins in colonial India with a droll anecdote. The son of a Brahmin family marries a low-caste woman and forfeits his social standing. He is a maharaja's tax clerk who, influenced by Gandhi's politics of poverty, makes false account entries in favor of poor...
...contributes scripts to the BBC and eventually publishes a collection of stories about India. Up to this point, aspects of Willie's life and early career are similar to those of Naipaul, a Trinidadian of Indian descent who took a degree at Oxford, worked for the BBC and wrote fiction. Unlike his protagonist, Naipaul learned everything about London and its ways...
...TIME: What motivated you to write about the life of children in Afghanistan? Ellis: I'd been doing solidarity work with women in Afghanistan for a couple of years back in Canada and I was in Pakistan interviewing women for an adult non- fiction book called 'Women of the Afghan War'. I met a woman whose daughter was in Kabul doing what the girl in the novel does, masquerading as a boy to earn a living for her family, and I thought that would make a really interesting children's novel...