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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Elan_MastaiElan Mastai - Wikipedia

    Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word , for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.

  2. Mar 14, 2017 · For over a decade, outgoing New Yorker copy head Ann Goldstein has made Elena Ferrante's work come alive in English. We spoke with her about translation, Italian lessons and Dante.

  3. Oct 12, 2017 · His standout work, the 2013 film The F Word, was the first time Mastai worked on a screenplay entirely of his own vision without commercial considerations. The result was a uniquely down-to-earth romantic comedy with witty dialogue and playful chemistry.

    • Future Perfect
    • Four-Legged First Chapter
    • Short & Swift

    "There were three main sources of inspiration for this book, spread out over decades. The first comes from my grandfather, who was a chemist. He really believed in his core that science was the answer to all the problems of the future. He also had an extensive collection of 1950s and 1960s sci-fi novels. I loved staring at these garish paintings of...

    "I had the idea for a little while before I put pen to paper. I thought, well, is this a movie? One day I'm walking my dog, and I'm thinking if only this could be in the first person, but it can't be first person because you can't do that in a movie without a ton of voice-over. And then I thought, wait, this could be a novel. Right at that moment, ...

    "The book is structured into really short chapters. When I wrote this book, I didn't have a publishing deal or a literary agent. So I fit the writing around my other work. I made a deal with myself, which was that I would write 250–500 words a day, but every single day. And initially, the short chapters were because each chapter represented one of ...

  4. Feb 8, 2017 · Elan Mastai. February 8, 2017. Share: The following is from Elan Mastais novel, All Our Wrong Todays. Mastai was born in Vancouver and lives in Toronto with his wife and children. He is a winner of the Canadian Academy Award and the Writers Guild of Canada Award.

  5. Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at ...

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  7. Feb 10, 2017 · Elan Mastai's debut novel, All Our Wrong Todays, arrived in bookstores this week. The novel, about a man living in an alternate, utopian version of 2016 who finds himself unwittingly...