Sophie Calle is a French contemporary artist with the reputation of a “stalker”, a term used by Stuart Jeffries on the UK Guardian (see here) Source: From UK Guardian’s article “Stalker,stripper, sleeper and spy” Whatever the right term, she is famous for being extremely intrusive in other people’s lives – for example, introducing herself…
Author: Claude Forthomme
Writer, essayist, poet, painter. Columbia U graduate in economics; United Nations expert (25 years in FAO; ended career as Director for Europe and Central Asia). Presently Senior Editor at Impakter Magazine and Deputy Observer Order of Malta at Rome-based United Nations Agencies (FAO, WFP, IFAD)
Writes in English and Italian under various pen names (Nougat for fiction in English; Forthomme for non-fiction). So far, publications include 2 books in Italian (including an award-winning children's book of tales) and 6 books in English (including one non-fiction essay on development aid).
All fiction in English is available on Amazon and major e-platforms, uncer pen name Claude Nougat.
Why Climate Fiction is Here to Stay
Climate fiction has gone viral for a very simple reason: it deals with climate change and global warming, issues that are getting worse every year. We’ve been used to dire reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for years but now we are getting one, equally somber report from the United States,…
A Five-Star Review by a Major Writer for Just Published FOREVER YOUNG, Part One
Hugely talented writer Bob Rector, author of Unthinkable Consequences (I highly recommend it, great romantic thriller) and of the acclaimed play Letters from the Front that successfully toured the world for 15 years, has just put my new climate fiction book, FOREVER YOUNG, Part 1, on his list of “hot new reads”. This is a…
Why Science Fiction is Important
This morning Amazon reminded me of what matters in Science Fiction and why it is not useless fantasy but a very serious literary genre that is able to raise deep existential issues and make us think. Here is what I got in my email box: Your Amazon.com Today’s Deals See All Departments Customers who have…
Is There a Book Cover Style for Climate Fiction?
Climate Fiction or cli-fi has evoked a surprisingly wide range of book covers. Look here at what the Cli-Fi Books.com website has put together: This is very different from standard science fiction fare and should put to rest the argument that cli-fi is a sub-genre of sci-fi. What is striking about these covers is the…
Masterpiece, Italy’s Reality TV Show for Writers: Last Act and a Small Miracle
Publishing Perspectives just published my most recent article about the Italian Reality TV show for writers (see here) and I’m happy to share it with you: Italy’s TV Reality Show Ignored Psychology of Authors Read more by Guest Contributor April 21, 2014 Italy’s “Masterpiece” TV reality show for writers failed to attract viewers, in…
Book Cover for a Cli Fi Novel: Which is Best?
Cli Fi, or Climate Fiction, is rapidly becoming a widely accepted term to designate a new genre of books dealing with Climate Change but not only: many elements taken together – like the demographic explosion, growing income inequality, urbanization and the rapid industrialization of the Third World – contribute to threaten our survival on Earth….
Interview with the Father of Cli Fi: How this New Genre Was Born is Revealed
American climate activist Dan Bloom visiting a local university in Taiwan to do some research on climate change issues My blog post about Climate Fiction, a “hot new genre” (here) led me to “virtually” meet Dan Bloom, the journalist and “green” activist who coined the term “Cli Fi”. I was very happy to meet him,…
Climate Fiction: A Hot New Genre?
Is climate fiction really a hot new genre (no pun intended)? Something remarkable has happened when American colleges start to use climate fiction to teach how to prepare for the coming climate crisis. Expect writers to sit up and listen – especially science fiction writers. The New York Times recently reported on it (see here)…
Author Bob Rector’s Interview of C.N.
Reblogged from author Bob Rector’s blog, see here. He’s just launching a round of interviews of authors – so keep an eye open on his blog, more interesting interviews are sure to come! I’m very honored to have drawn his interest. He is a remarkably talented writer himself, the author of Letters from the Front,…
Why Climate Change is Only a Side Show: the Sixth Extinction is Upon Us!
In the United States, Climate Change is viewed with suspicion: many Americans don’t believe in it, at best they’ll agree that climate warming may have natural causes but they strongly refute the idea that it could be due to human action. And in any case, they reject any causal linkage with extinction of life on…
Readers vs. Watchers: The Digital Revolution is Not Over
Lately a huge controversy has developed around the theme “Indies are Beating Traditional Publishers”, and one publishing guru, Mark Coker, the father of Smashwords, has loudly predicted that self-published authors will outrun traditional publishers by 2020, see here. Indie authors, carried forward by the digital revolution that has lowered production costs and leveled the field,…
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