Writing in The New Statesman, in “The paradox of fairness”, Jenny Diski, who contributed to Issue 2 of Interlitq, invokes Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy

Jenny Diski

Writing in The New Statesman, in “The paradox of fairness”, Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, invokes Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy: “In Victorian fiction, Dickens and Hardy are masters of just and unjust deserts, as innocents such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure become engulfed by persecutory institutions and struggle, only sometimes with success, to find the life they ought, in a fair world, to have. In Dickens, readers get a joyful reassurance after evil intent almost overcomes goodness but justice finally, though at the last moment, wins out by decency and coincidence. Hardy, in his covert modernism, offers no reassurance at all that his innocents’ day will come; his victims’ hopes and lives are snuffed out by forces such as nature and class that have no concern at all with the worth of individual lives and hopes. For both writers, however, the morally just or unjust result is usually an accident that works in or against the protagonist’s favour.

Charles Dickens

Thomas Hardy

Aamer Hussein, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed to Issue 2 and Issue 8 of Interlitq, currently completing his first volume of Urdu short stories, Maya aur Hans (Maya and the Swan)

Aamer Hussein

Aamer Hussein, the London-based author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed to Issue 2 and Issue 8 of Interlitq, is currently completing his first volume of Urdu short stories, Maya aur Hans (Maya and the Swan).

Jenny Diski, que contribuyó prosa a la edición 2 de Interlitq, lamenta que los hombres dominan la panorama literaria en el mundo anglosajón

Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski, la escritora británica que contribuyó prosa a la edición 2 de Interlitq, lamenta (Sipse.com, 08.03.13) que los hombres dominan la panorama literaria en el mundo anglosajón.

Jenny Diski, who contributed prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, laments that the Anglo-Saxon literary world is dominated by men

Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, laments that fact that the Anglo-Saxon literary world is dominated by men (Sipse.com, 08.03.13).

Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, a member of Mary-Kay Wilmers’s “stable”

Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Mary-Kay Wilmers: London’s mythical urban elite made flesh” (Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, 22.02.13):  ”Yet the Wilmers touch rests more on inspiring a stable of regular writers – Mantel or Lanchester, say, or Jenny Diski, Andrew O’Hagan and Colm Toibin – to write something sharp and fresh about the hot issues of the day.”

Mary-Kay Wilmers

Boyd Tonkin