Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with some of the world’s most famous contemporary writers, taken from the archives of Wasafiri. It also includes three new pieces, especially commissioned for this volume. Conducted by distinguished critics, writers and journalists, the interviews offer a unique insight into the views and work of a remarkable array of featured novelists and poets. They also chart a slow but certain cultural shift: those who were ‘other’ have not only won the establishment’s most revered literary prizes but have also begun to be seen as, quite simply, contemporary writers, writing across and into all our worlds.
With an introductory comment by Susheila Nasta, the founder and editor of Wasafiri, this collection is essential reading for all those interested in the international literary world.
Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Monica Ali, Amit Chaudhuri, David Dabydeen, Bernadine Evaristo, Maggie Gee, Lorna Goodison, Nadine Gordimer, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Wilson Harris, Keri Hulme, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackie Kay, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, George Lamming, Rohinton Mistry, V.S. Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Joan Riley, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Sam Selvon, Vikram Seth, Zadie Smith, Wole Soyinka, Moyez Vassanji and Marina Warner.
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