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22 02, 2022

The Food of Love Cooking up a Story across gender,class and race

By Sylvia Vetta|February 22nd, 2022|Categories: Letters to the press|0 Comments

  My memoir has been edited, copy edited and the cover designed now it goes to Claret Press's talented book designer Petya Tsankova to create the finished product.  There'll be some unusual features. Each chapter ends with a relevant recipe

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16 02, 2022

My friend Weimin He’s highly recommended online workshops

By Sylvia Vetta|February 16th, 2022|Categories: Art, Biography, China, Art & History, Events, Kennington, Oxford, Oxford Castaways|0 Comments

Weimin  says ‘I spent an hour and a half in the print room to study Raphael’s original drawing. I tried to draw the same size as the original and I presume Raphael might have spent no more than 1.5 hours

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15 02, 2022

Expect the Unexpected at the Second Oxford Independent Book Fair

By Sylvia Vetta|February 15th, 2022|Categories: Oxford, Oxford Castaways|0 Comments

  Thanks to the success of the first Oxford Indie Book Fair there will be a second one - even better - on Saturday April 2 from 10.30- 4.30 The 45 exhibitors will include independent publishers such as Claret Press,

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4 02, 2022

The Food of Love. Cooking up a Life …coming soon

By Sylvia Vetta|February 4th, 2022|Categories: Biography, Events, Kennington, Mixed relationships, Oxford|0 Comments

Gosh ..  Claret Press has started to promote my memoir! https://www.claretpress.com/ Do you like the cover? Food_of_Love_Cover_ Writing the lives of the 118 Oxford castaways and the fictional memoir of artist Little Winter in Brushstrokes in Time made me start

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25 01, 2022

Make the Headington Shark a heritage site !

By Sylvia Vetta|January 25th, 2022|Categories: Events, Lost History, Oxford, Oxford Castaways|0 Comments

You have one day left to support the proposal to make the Headington Shark a heritage site. The Shark is mostly associated with the owner of the house Bill Heine seen in this pic. Bill was my friend but the

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21 01, 2022

Sudeep Sen in Oxford

By Sylvia Vetta|January 21st, 2022|Categories: Art, Buddhism, Oxford|0 Comments

While he was in Oxford, I was privileged to host the acclaimed Indian poet Sudeep Sen. He is in the UK to promote his latest anthology Anthropocene. It is endorsed by one of the world authors that I most admire-Amitav

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3 01, 2022

An injection of hope thanks to Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.

By Sylvia Vetta|January 3rd, 2022|Categories: Letters to the press|0 Comments

  Have you watched this inspirational film with the late Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama? Most of it was filmed Dharamsala. Given the rise of fascism targeting hatred  of religious minorities in India it could be good to get

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27 11, 2021

I’m thrilled with the endorsements on the new cover of Brushstrokes in Time.

By Sylvia Vetta|November 27th, 2021|Categories: Art, China, Art & History, Lost History, The Stars ArtMovement|0 Comments

   A brilliant,compelling read.  Shrenik Rao Editor of the Madras Courier   Whether describing how students were ‘sent to the countryside’ or how, after Mao died, young artists hung their experimental work outside the national art gallery, Vetta is always

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25 11, 2021

Why you should help build the first library in a w. Kenyan district the size of Oxfordshire.

By Sylvia Vetta|November 25th, 2021|Categories: Kennington, Kenya, Novels and short stories|0 Comments

Nasio Trust founder Nancy Mudenyo Hunt and I wrote a novel together inspired by her childhood in Kenya and experience transforming the lives of disadvantaged teenagers by taking them to the Nasio projects in  Musanda (w.Kenya). Not so Black and

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13 11, 2021

The Jam Factory -always the Jam Factory? No Gill and my invention.

By Sylvia Vetta|November 13th, 2021|Categories: Letters to the press|0 Comments

How we named the Jam Factory One of the books I bought at the Oxford Indie Book Fair is Oxford Zz to AA written with a gentle humour by Richard O. Smith and illustrated with bold exaggeration by Korky Paul. 

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About the Author

As a writer Sylvia Vetta is best known in the Oxfordshire area for the 18 years she was a freelance writer on The Oxford Times and other magazines,  especially for her popular ‘Oxford Castaways’ series which gave her the opportunity to write the lives of  120 inspirational people from five continents. Her novels cross cultures but have impressive endorsements for their authenticity. ‘Brushstrokes in Time’ set in China and California wouldn’t have been possible without the three years she spent researching and interviewing Qu Leilei, a founder of the Stars Art Movement (Beijing 1979) who saved the life of the first leader of the Democracy Movement. It has been endorsed by China experts from Oxford, Harvard and Frankfurt and the poet Jenny Lewis says it is “Utterly mesmerising and unforgettable and among my top ten historical novels.”

‘Sculpting the Elephant’ set in Oxford and India, is close to her own life experience. Her Indian born partner Atam Vetta’s PhD was in Quantitative Genetics. She learned from him that each one of us is unique. Life has taught her that when you see your fellow human being as just that – a unique human being – and refrain from attaching labels you react with empathy. That is why she and one of her Oxford castaways, Nancy Mudenyo Hunt, have been able to co-author the novel ‘Not so Black and White’.

Recent Posts

  • Reptiles- scarily up to the minute!
  • Making HISTORY and friendship across continents.
  • The British Empire: a force for good or Colonial Holocaust?
  • Memories of Helen Peacocke: The importance of my talk at Headington LitFest on May 10
  • Build BRIDGES not WALLS or climb over them.

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