Adaptations: André Aciman, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Irvine Welsh, Vikram Chandra, Yann Martel & Sandip Roy
André Aciman, a memoirist, essayist and New York Times bestselling novelist, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of the Whiting Award-winning memoir Out of Egypt, which details his childhood growing up Jewish in post-colonial Egypt. In 2017, his novel Call Me by Your Name was adapted into a widely acclaimed film and named one of the top ten films of the year by the American Film Institute. He is also the author of False Papers, Alibis and three other novels, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square and Enigma Variations. He is currently working on a novel and a collection of essays.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Call me by your name, Out of egypt
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling novelist, poet, activist and teacher of writing. She has won many awards, including the American Book Award and the Premio Scanno. Her work has been published in over 100 magazines and anthologies while her books have been translated into 29 languages. Several of her works have been made into films and plays. She teaches at the internationally acclaimed writing program at the University of Houston.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Queen of Dreams, Oleander Girl
Irvine Welsh is the author of twelve novels including the international bestsellers Trainspotting, Porno, Filth, Glue, The Blade Artist, and most recently, Dead Men’s Trousers. Both Trainspotting and its sequel Porno were adapted into iconic films by Danny Boyle.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Trainspotting, The Acid House
Vikram Chandra is the author of Geek Sublime, Sacred Games, which was adapted into Netflix’s first original Indian production, Love and Longing in Bombay and Red Earth and Pouring Rain. He is a co-founder of Granthika, a software startup reinventing writing for the digital age. Chandra teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yann Martel is a Canadian writer, the author of five works of fiction, notably Life of Pi, for which he won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. The book was adapted to the silver screen by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Life of Pie, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Sandip Roy is a novelist and commentator. He is the host of the ‘Sandip Roy Show’ on Indian Express. His audio dispatches air weekly on public radio in San Francisco. His columns appear in Economic Times, The Hindu and GQ. His work has also appeared in various publications including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Indian Express, Firstpost, Print.in and NPR.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Don’t Let Him Know
Adaptations
How do you take a work of prose and turn it into a screenplay? André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Mistress of Spices), Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), Vikram Chandra (Sacred Games) and Yann Martel (Life of Pi), who have all seen their novels or work turned into successful movies or TV shows, discuss the process with Anindita Ghose.
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