David Godwin on the work of a Literary Agent: David Godwin & Nilanjana S. Roy
David Godwin founded his literary agency DGA with his wife Heather 25 years ago. Previously, he was a publisher with Routledge, then moved to Heinemann, then Seckers and finally, Jonathan Cape. At Cape, he published Ben Okri, the first African to win the Booker prize. At DGA, he has handled a wide range of writers, including the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. He has a special interest in Indian writers. His first Indian book was Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things, which won the Booker prize in 1997. Since then, he has agented Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga. He now represents William Dalrymple, Jeet Thayil, Manu S. Pillai, Nilanjana S. Roy, David Davidar, Meena Kandasamy, Yashaswini Chandra, Aanchal Malhotra, Shashi Tharoor, Kanishk Tharoor, Arundhati Katju, Menaka Guruswamy, Ruchir Joshi, Raj Kamal Jha, Shehan Karunatilaka, Amitava Kumar, Vikram Seth, Preti Taneja, Salil Tripathi, Monisha Rajesh and Christina Lamb amongst others.
Nilanjana S. Roy is the author of the award-winning fantasy novels The Wildings and The Hundred Names of Darkness, and writes a regular column on books for the Financial Times. She has edited several anthologies, a collection of essays on reading titled The Girl Who Ate Books and has just finished her third novel, Black River.
What does a literary agent do? How does he select his clients and sell their work to publishers? The legendary David Godwin, who founded the world-famous literary agency and the man who represents Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth and many of the greatest Indian authors, shares his secrets with Nilanjana S. Roy
THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.
The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.
Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.
Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.
Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.
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