Author Biography | Interview | Books by this Author | Read-Alikes
Janni Visman studied film at the London College of printing and mixed media at the Slade School of Fine Art. She is the author of two novels, Sex Education and Yellow. She lives in London.
This bio was last updated on 10/17/2015. In a perfect world, we would like to keep all of BookBrowse's biographies up to date, but with many thousands of lives to keep track of it's simply impossible to do. So, if the date of this bio is not recent, you may wish to do an internet search for a more current source, such as the author's website or social media presence. If you are the author or publisher and would like us to update this biography, send the complete text and we will replace the old with the new.
In providing a map of Stella's apartment at the beginning of the book,
you exhibit a great deal of authorial control before the story even begins.
Why did you feel it was necessary for readers to see the physical
construction of the place as you pictured it, rather than leaving it up to
their own imaginations?
It was to do with remembering books I read as a child that had maps
outlining the world in which the story took place. (“X” marks the spot.) In
the case of Yellow, the map serves as an introduction to the limits
of Stella's world.
With Stella you have added to a literary history rich in unreliable
narrators. What are the merits and risks of this approach?
First-person narration allows the reader to become completely engaged in
the character's way of thinking. It is like a one-to-one, so to speak. The
risk is that the reader may find the whole experience too gothic. In Yellow, Stella's unreliable narration is integral to the story. In
writing this book, the benefits were that I could focus and concentrate on
one character, and the difficulties were in getting alternative perspectives
on ...
Mark Haddon is the author of the international bestseller, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He won the Whitbread Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for that work. In addition to The ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
Yellow
Try:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, to an Anglo-Moroccan librarian mother and a Danish violin-maker father. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford and worked first as a journalist in Hongkong and Taiwan. She then ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
Yellow
Try:
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
by Liz Jensen
We recommend 5 similar authors
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise
by Colleen Oakley
A “wildly surprising, entertaining ride of a novel.”
—Jodi Picoult
The Last Russian Doll
by Kristen Loesch
A haunting epic of betrayal, revenge, and redemption following three generations of Russian women.
Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer
A spellbinding, internationally bestselling family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria.
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
