Jeffrey Archer engages audience in his inimitable style at Bangalore Literature Festival
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The second day of the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) noticed periods with audio system corresponding to Joshua Matthew, Lieutenant General Asad Durrani and A.S. Dulat, Hamid Ansari and Geeta Mohan, Milind Soman and Roopa Pai, and Jeffrey Archer.
Mr. Archer engaged the audience in his inimitable style, holding forth on a variety of matters. To a query by writer Nirmala Govindrajan, who was moderating the session, on why he wouldn’t write extra youngsters’s books — he has written 4 — he replied, “I am 80! I’ve now got to write eight books on [detective] William Warwick before I die. If I had time I would, but I don’t.”
He additionally had an recommendation for aspiring authors: “Only morons and idiots hand in their first draft. I apologise… Only morons, idiots, and geniuses. Not me. Even at the age of 80, when I have been at it for 40, 50 years, I’m still doing 14 drafts. There is no shortcut. If there was, I would have found it by now.”
He additionally spoke about his scenario through the pandemic stating that he has been privileged (“I was locked down for 144 days during which I wrote the third William Warwick book”); the distinction between writers and storytellers; his admiration for R.K. Narayan and girls’s rights (“If I dare say, your country is way behind on that particular subject”).
While final 12 months’s version noticed a crowd of 25,000 individuals, this 12 months’s competition, muted owing to the pandemic, noticed an in-person attendance of about 550 individuals at the Bangalore International Centre over the 2 days. The variety of stay attendees on-line was about 5,000 over the 2 days, in keeping with V. Ravichandar, honorary director, BIC, who can also be a part of the core crew of the BLF
Earlier, Chetan Bhagat spoke about his newest guide, One Arranged Murder, in a session moderated by journalist Shrabonti Bagchi. Stating that he learn a variety of crime books in preparation, Mr. Bhagat added, “It’s a very different ball game to write a murder mystery.”
He additionally spoke concerning the obsession with the Sushant Singh Rajput loss of life case, the media’s protection, and the hazards of it.
Awards had been additionally introduced to the winners of the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2020 and the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Book Prize
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