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...fiction Jutta Schettler, Jaime Bulloch & Jeremy Munday on the art and craft of translation Xiaolu Guo on cultural translation and more Jonny Geller on the role of the literary agent Andrew Cowan on creativity and creative writing Andrew Cowan, novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, discusses the notion of creativity, and how it’s...

...fiction features on two Open University English modules (A111 and A335). Dickens transformed the nineteenth-century novel; created characters that most of the population still knows by name; and allegedly invented Christmas, although he competes with Prince Albert for this last honour. Less well known are his views on race and colonialism. Few readers think of Dickens as...

Author, Neil Gaiman, discusses how P.L. Travers (author of Mary Poppins) and Enid Blyton were both a catalyst for his love of fantasy fiction. ...Transcript This video was taken from exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of OU/BBC co-production Sleuths, Spies and Sorcerers: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes. More on fantasy novels

...fiction franchise have any resonance for audiences nowadays? The use of myth helps with familiarity...[word Vader - Darth Vader outline with words like 'jedi' and 'evil' in the image] George Lucas, the writer and director behind the Star Wars franchise, was influenced by the work of Joseph Campbell and Campbell’s work on myth. Campbell’s scholarship was controversial...