Rina Brundu English

Rina Brundu was born in Villanova Strisaili, a small town in the Sardinian province of Ogliastra. After graduating in Modern Languages and Literature, she moved to Ireland where she still lives and works.

Creator of the sardinian detective Don Osvaldo Da Silva Ochoa, she published her first short-story The wake on a Sardinian magazine while still at University, while Tana di Volpe (Fox Den, 2003) is her first novel. In May 2006, she edited Isole, Scritture Letterarie, Momenti d'Ogliastra, the first antology of

the new Ogliastra Province which contains the works of several well-known linguists, journalists and writers as well as many of her own articles. In July 2006, she won the AVANT GARDEN LITERARY PRIZE with her novel Sirbone. A writer with a strong interest in journalism, her works have been published in the national weekly magazine Diario, as well as in many literary reviews and websites.

Again, in May 2006, Tana di Volpe and her author have been included in the prestigiuos sardinian literature "In presenza di tutte le lingue del mondo" by university professor Giuseppe Marci. This textbook is published by the university publisher CUEC.

Terza Pagina is Rina Brundu's first online literary product. See also Premio Letterario L'indizio Nascosto - The Hidden Clue Award, Italian Crime Writer of the Year, the sardinian philological studies site, Manifesto Net - Navigo, Ergo Sum, Giallografia and Twenty Rules for Writing a detective novel (in english).

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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily. In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book. The theme is defined, the style, the tone. At least in my case, the first paragraph is a kind of sample of what the rest of the book is going to be. That’s why writing a book of short stories is much more difficult than writing a novel. Every time you write a short story, you have to begin all over again.

-- Gabriel García Márquez

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, “Is he as crazy as I am?” I don’t need that question answered.

-- Philip Roth, 1971

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

- Isaac Asimov

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