Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
Influences
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll tell you how other writers' books influence my work and why I'm so selective about what I read. You'll learn about the authors whose work is important to my work and get to know a few anthologies that inspire me by providing insight into the workings of other writers.”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author. Get a practical and theoretical introduction of literary writing to discover your voice and share your perspective with the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“influences In the last lesson I have about me and talked about my way to writing. now i will tell you what are my main sources of inspiration and which authors are particularly important to me. Literature comes from literature. I can't write if I don't read at the same time. When I'm not writing I find it harder to read. As I write, I surround myself with other books and authors like with good friends. You might even feel for some authors related as in a family. The semiotician and poststructuralist Roland Barthes also coined the term filiation, i.e. the literary descent. As in any good fam...”
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Course summary for: Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
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Isabelle Lehn
A course by Isabelle Lehn
Isabelle Lehn is a freelance writer based in Leipzig, Germany. After earning a degree in literary writing and receiving her doctorate in rhetoric from the German Institute for Literature, Leipzig, she also went on to work there as a teacher and assistant while carrying out her research. Her work can be classified as a combination of fiction, essay, and realism. Each of her texts is an exploratory journey—at the beginning, the end is unknown, and as it progresses, she as the narrator learns more and more about her surroundings, her timeline, and also about herself.
In 2016, she published her first novel Binde zwei Vögel zusammen, which has won several awards, and in 2019, her autofiction book Frühlingserwachen was shortlisted for the Text und Sprache literary award. She has also received various grants and her essay Weibliches Schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, about specific gender roles within the literary world, was highly acclaimed and won the Dietrich Oppenberg Media award. She regularly writes essays and radio-show columns, hosts literary events and podcasts, and teaches classes, conferences, and workshops.
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