Liz Calder, founder of Bloomsbury, visiting Kolkata, talks about how she launched Rushdie, Rowling and (though not elaborated) Barnes and Brookner. She sure looks like she is aging very gracefully in the picture that the article carries.
Calder, 67, visiting the city on a British Council project, says it is the “same thing” that leads her to pick out writers. “An original voice. And authors who write about partly imaginary worlds, but explaining the real world and people,” says the founding editor of Bloomsbury, who also launched Julian Barnes and Anita Brookner. “The book should take you somewhere you don’t know. To new places of the mind,” says Calder.
This is as true of Rushdie, as of Rowling, who has single-handedly changed Bloomsbury’s “fortune” (Bloomsbury’s turnover is £109 million; and half of its business is said to be Harry Potter.)
hmm so how long is she here.. ?
Posted by
Aravinthan |
9:14 AM, May 28, 2006
I have no clue :)
Posted by
Echo/Lavanya |
10:07 AM, May 28, 2006