What is the fastest-travelling thing created by man? Now there could be a number of interesting answers to this question, from light paths to bullet trains, but the right answer today is much simpler: stories.
Which leads us to the following questions: How do Ideas come to storytellers? How do writers decide which lead to take in storytelling? What´s the process of developing an idea into a story? How does getting feedback from other writers influence your storytelling?
These are some of the questions, we want to find answers to with
Nandita Basu, Sudha G Tilak, Richa Jha, Himanjali Sankar, Monica Cantieni and
Swati Roy. Our panellists are writers of long and short forms, graphic novelists and also as publishers.
Date/Time: 3 February 2023, 18:00-19:30 hrs.
Venue: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
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Panellists
© Nandita Basu
Nandita Basu is a graphic novelist and musician. She has written short graphic stories for various anthologies for an older audience. Her book for YA, The Piano, story of a friendship was on the Parag honour list 2020. Her book Rain Must Fall won the Neev Book award in the YA category in 2022. Nandita can be easily influenced by a bag of gummi bears, she prefers conversations with animals and children in that order.
© Sudha G Tilak
Sudha G Tilak only takes up jobs that allow her to tell stories – tall and truthful. She worked as a journalist for many years for Indian and international publications. She worked with Lonely Planet for eight years as an editor producing travel books. Her first work of translation Hungry Humans was released in 2022. Temple Tales, released in 2019 is her first book for children.
© Richa Jha
Richa Jha writes fiction for children and social observations for adults. She is also the founder and publisher of Pickle Yolk Books, a multi-award-winning independent publishing house for picture books in India.
© Himanjali Sankar
Himanjali Sankar is an editor and writer. Her children’s and YA books include The Stupendous Timetelling Superdog and Talking of Muskaan, which were shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award. Mrs C Remembers, her first novel for adults, won her the FICCI Publishing Award for Upcoming Author of the Year in 2018. She is currently Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster India.
© FRESHPIXEL Manuel Fischer
Monica Cantieni lives in Wettingen, Switzerland. She publishes novels and short stories. Her last novel “Grünschnabel”, published by Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt a. Main was nominated for the Swiss Book Prize in 2011 and - in its English translation by Seagull Books, Kolkata-London-Chicago - for the First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (UK, 2015). The novel has been translated into six languages. To date, she has received numerous awards for her short stories, published in magazines and anthologies.
© Swati Roy
Swati Roy is a co-founder of Bookaroo, India’s first multi-city international children’s literature festival. She started her journey into the children’s literature world in 2003, by setting up an independent children’s bookstore Eureka!
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