How to Begin
letters to a young writer
$35.32
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
Guidance for a creative life from the international bestselling author of THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES and LETTERS TO CAMONDO.
A book about finding a creative voice and becoming an artist via a scintillating new discovery in Edmund de Waal’s family archives - letters between his grandmother and the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
With letters translated from the German by prizewinning translator, Karen Leeder.
Edmund de Waal’s grandmother, Elisabeth Ephrussi, aspired to be …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784746704 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784746703 |
| Author: | Edmund de Waal |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 136mm x 25mm |
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Artmaking, poetry, the wisdom of elders and the naivety of youth all coincide in these illuminating pages * Bookseller *
About The Author
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal is an artist whose porcelain is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Costa Biography Award. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction by Yale University. The White Road, a journey into the history of porcelain, was published in 2015. He lives in London with his family.
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