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Marianne Furtado De Nazareth

I have always loved to write from the time I was a little girl. However the impetus to write to publish grew only in my 20’s.
Inspite of running an ad agency for 12 years and a pre-school for babies in the house. However my love of writing continued and I started to publish with several newspapers including the Deccan Herald.
Enjoyed my years working with them full time and resigned in 2009 as Assistant Editor.
Inbetween I went off to Europe to do a fellowship called the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Journalism.
Then I got bitten by academia and came back to start off a PhD with the Madurai Kamaraj University. Will be called for my Viva any day soon.
Happily working on my third book and hope to send off the manuscript by end September to the Malini Nair one of the editors. Have three sons and a husband and sadly no daughters. Travel across the world to see the two older boys who live in the UK ( David) and US ( Andrew). At home we still have Steven who is a Digital marketer and content writer.

Terrible snacker and my favourite food is a Dosa or hot toast dripping with butter.

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Aries

Three things people don’t know about you?

I am very neat and like living like that. I dislike Karela but have to drink its juice as I am diabetic I absolutely love facials.

What’s your greatest fear?

Drowning in the ocean, can't fathom why when I live in Bangalore.

What is your greatest achievement?

My PhD at almost 60 plus.

High point of your life?

My sons -- all their achievements.

Low point of your life

Being diagnosed with diabetes when I was 35.

Which living person do you most admire?

My mother who is suffering from dementia and Parkinsons.

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Batman

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

The Joker

Who are your favorite authors?

Rumer Gooding, Doris Lessing, Virginai Woolfe -- all the Brit women writers.

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

The Scarlet Pimpernel, Pride and Prejudice, My Secret Garden, My Cousin Rachel, The Kite Runner

Is there a book you love to reread?

Wuthering Heights

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

Pretty Woman, Ben Hur, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The Jungle Book

One Superpower you wish you had?

If I could fly

Your epitaph would read? /Last line in your biography would be?

Achieved all she set out to do!

If you had a time machine to take you back to any country and any time period, where would you choose to be for your childhood, adolosent , adult life and silver years?

I would love to go back to my holidays that we spent in Baroda ( Vadodra) and my grandparents were alive still.

If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?

Would love to play the flute.

Which book you wish you had written ?

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

When and where do you write ?

I have a desk that looks out into the neighbours garden and ours in the master bedroom. Write on my laptop.

Silence or music?

Prefer silence, but gentle music too is fine. Been a journo so lots of noise too has been the norm

One phrase that you use most often?

If I could, I would!

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

No none, but I do think through the chapter before writing.

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

All the crazy jokes on whatsapp!

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Anyone can write - you just have to enjoy it.

Marianne Furtado De Nazareth graduated in History, Sociology, & Economics, from St. Marys College, Shillong and then went on to do her Masters in History from Bangalore University and a second Masters in Journalism from Erasmus Mundus, Denmark, Amsterdam & UK. She is an accomplished pianist trained by the Trinity College of Music, London. She lives in Bangalore with her husband and one son and currently works as an environmental journalist and adjunct faculty, teaching PG media studies in two colleges in Bangalore. Marianne can be reached at: mde.nazareth@gmail.com.

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