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Based on a true story

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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Based on a true story, emilio salgari, fiction

True storyYou know those “Based on a True Story” blurbs on a novel’s cover? I must confess I rather loathe them.

Then again, whenever I get asked how much of myself is there in my novel/play/short story, I want to ask back: does it matter? I never do it, though – and after the first few discomfited times, I’ve learnt to answer that no writer’s an island, and so on. Still, I am curious: does it matter so much? Why? What changes in a reader of viewer’s perception of the story I tell, if they know that a scene or a character or a bit of dialogue is based on some childhood memory – or nothing in particular? Continue reading →

Captain Salgari

26 Thursday Feb 2015

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emilio salgari, Rajah Brooke, Sandokan

n4_art2_corsaroneroYou can blame this one on Davide Mana, and his Salgari post over at Karavansara, for reminding me of how I too was subjected to Salgari as a child: in Italy there used to be this curious notion that no childhood could be considered complete without a hefty dose of Malay Pirates and Multi-coloured Corsairs. That went especially for boys, but girls weren’t always allowed to go immune…

I, for one, wasn’t. One summer day, when I was about ten, a distant cousin of my mother’s descended on me with a whole box of vintage Salgari – his own childhood reading choice, some fifteen or twenty hardbacks, with tiger-coloured* covers. He had loved them, he said, and I was going to love them too. Continue reading →

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Ink & Saltwater

18 Monday Nov 2013

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emilio salgari, john masefield, joseph conrad

Here we go. My Conrad thing goes onstage tonight, and I’m all aflutter and ajitter…

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And here‘s a link to the Pinterest Board I made for this project…

Wish me luck.

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