Namita Bhandare on literary agent David Godwin in Mint-Lounge:
Celebrated literary agent David Godwin describes himself as a “car salesman”. “My job,” he says, “is to take the Mercedes from the garage of the publisher and put it into the garage of the writer.”
British self-deprecation? Godwin is, after all, a man to be taken seriously. His clients include two Booker Prize winners (Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai) and such A-list writers as Vikram Seth and William Dalrymple, not to mention Jim Crace, Simon Armitage and Alan Warner. Surely he doesn’t really see himself as a car salesman. But Godwin is serious. “I’m here to champion writers. I want to be a literary Robin Hood.”
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