Where Does Fiction Come From? | Deepti Kapoor, Ruth Ozeki, Shehan Karunatilaka & Alexandra Pringle

Where Does Fiction Come From?
Deepti Kapoor, Ruth Ozeki and Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Alexandra Pringle
Where does fiction come from? What is the process of its creation? How do you make up characters and situations that are believable? And why should the reader care? Three of the world’s acclaimed novelists, Shehan Karunatilaka, Ruth Ozeki and Deepti Kapoor, share their insights on the art of creating a novel with Alexandra Pringle.
Deepti Kapoor is the author of two novels, Age of Vice and A Bad Character. Age of Vice, forthcoming from Riverhead in January 2023, is currently being translated into 20 languages, and is in development for a TV series with FX/Disney.
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of four novels. Her work, The Book of Form and Emptiness, won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, Timecode of a Face, and the documentary film, Halving the Bones.
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, the latest of which is Sojourn. He is also a poet, essayist, short-story writer, and musician. His works of non-fiction include Finding the Raga, which received the James Tait Black Prize this year. Other awards his work has received include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the inaugural Infosys Prize in the Humanities. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and Critical at Ashoka University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary fellow of the Modern Language Association of America and of Balliol College, Oxford.
Shehan Karunatilaka is the author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the Booker Prize 2022. He has also authored the Commonwealth Book Prize-winning, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, and a short story collection titled The Birth Lottery. He has also published several children’s books.
Alexandra Pringle was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury for 20 years; her authors included Susanna Clarke, Richard Ford, Elizabeth Gilbert, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Madeline Miller, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Souief and Patti Smith. She is a Patron of Index on Censorship, a Trustee of Reprieve and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin and Warwick University
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