Wordsmiths of the World: Artists of Storytelling - Softcover

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Reading Irish writer David Mitchell’s novels is to embark on an adventure travelling through time and space. He alternates detective story, action movie, cyberpunk thriller and romance. Why should you bother?
Why was Eli Safak almost imprisoned in Turkiye for something she never said?
How did Haruki Murakami become a contemporary Japanese Kafka?
What was it about Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet that allowed itself to be turned into an Oscar-winning film?
What did terrorist bomb-blasts in Spain do to the sales of Chris Cleave’s book Incendiary?
How did Australian Peter Carey insult the Queen?
Why are Richard Powers and Roberto Bolano the greatest writers you’ve never heard of?
How did JK Rowling unleash the greatest publishing tsunami of the modern age, revolutionise the book trade, and change the reading habits of an entire generation?

In Wordsmiths of the World, Ed Bonner looks at what separates 50 successful writers from the rest. It is rarely pure luck. While luck determines whether a book lands on the right desk at the right time, true literary greatness requires a rare fusion of innate ability and an acute awareness of the human condition.
The finest authors possess a distinct command over language, but talent alone is static. The writers who redefine literature do so by capturing or creating the zeitgeist—the defining spirit of their time. They act as mirrors and prophets. Some tune into the unspoken anxieties of their era and give them form, while others write so disruptively that they reshape the culture itself, dictating how an entire generation thinks, speaks, and feels.

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