Cole Beauchamp was longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize & the Mslexia Novel competition in one magical year (2013), and has been beavering away on her novel since then. She lives in London with her girlfriend and their two children. Cole is represented by Juliet Mushens . One of my favourite writers, Jhumpa Lahiri , decided to stop writing in English and switch to Italian in 2012. She’s just written (in Italian) her memoir, “In Other Words” – which she had Ann Goldstein translate into English – to describe this experience. Born to Indian parents who immigrated to the US, Lahiri won the Pulitzer with her first collection of short stories, “Interpreter of Maladies”. She found fame after her first book disconcerting: “ All of my writing comes from a place where I feel invisible…But a year after my first book was published, I lost my anonymity.” Her answer has been a linguistic exile in Italy. I find this idea of escaping to a foreign tongue so fascinat...
I write therefore I am