The Thirteenth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Wednesday, November 9th to Sunday, November 13th 2022
Let's Turn The Page
Online : 9 - 10 Nov
On ground : 11 - 13 Nov
The Reveal
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Wednesday, 9th Nov -
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm IST -
Online
Irish literary polymath Colm Tóibín – critic, essayist, journalist, novelist, playwright, poet – talks about the art of writing fictionalised biographies. He has written two such books, on authors he greatly admires: Henry James and Thomas Mann, German Nobel Laureate for 1929. This is a discussion about how a writer, by combining research and imagination, might be able to bring a famed historical personality, especially another writer, to life in a way a conventional biography can never do. Tóibín also talks about Mann’s hidden, and sometimes, dark, impulses, and the tumultuous times in which he lived.
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