The Clay Writer Shaping in Creative Writing
This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.Always offering attendees four good reasons for not attending
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CLAY WRITER THE
Shaping in Creative Writing
The Clay Writer
Zoran Živković
The Clay Writer Shaping in Creative Writing
Zoran Živković Novi Beograd, Serbia
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Preface
The first seventy years of my life were very bookish indeed. My first encounter with books occurred when I was only three years old. My mother used to read to me almost every evening; I couldn’t fall asleep without hearing at least a few pages. Luckily, that was well before the glorious days of the Internet era with its surrogate mothers in the shape of a variety of digital gadgets that do anything but inspire their users to love reading, love literature and love books. I started reading books myself at the age of eight and haven’t stopped since. I studied comparative literature; both my MA and Ph.D. theses were about literary subjects. Then, I commenced translating, mostly from English; my translator’s opus contains more than seventy books. The next step was publishing books; first as an editor and then as an independent publisher, I produced about three hundred editions. I quit that job in order to become an author. In three decades, I have written thirty books—twenty-two fiction vii
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and eight non-fiction. They were brought out in nearly two hundred editions in twenty-five countries around the world, including my native Serbia. Eventually, I embarked on my final bookish voyage. Relying on my long experience in the world of books, I began instructing others on how to write fiction. I spent the last ten years bef
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