Every Word Matters
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Every Word Matters is an essential guide for writers who want to make a difference.
Every Word Matters is an essential guide for writers who want to make a difference.
Winner, Outstanding Columnist, 2025 Kennedy Awards
Renowned for her insightful columns in the Guardian, Dr Ranjana Srivastava brings her signature clarity and intelligence to the art of writing opinion columns, advocacy pieces and essays.
With wisdom and warmth, she skilfully guides readers through the challenges and rewards of writing. From simplifying complex ideas to developing a distinctive voice and engaging the audience, Srivastava offers practical advice drawn from her own experiences of both setbacks and successes.
Whether your goal is to educate, inspire, or advocate, this book will help you transform your ideas into compelling writing.
What makes Every Word Matters especially powerful is Srivastava’s dual perspective as both an oncologist and a writer, giving her a unique understanding of the power of language to inform, persuade and heal.
A must read for aspiring writers, professionals, and anyone curious about the writing process, Every Word Matters is a powerful reminder of why writing well truly matters.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761634192
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 July 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Australia
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Dr Ranjana Srivastava is a practising Australian oncologist, award-winning author and Fulbright scholar. Educated in India, the UK, the United States and Australia, she is the recipient of the Monash University Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award, the JFK Merit Award from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to doctor-patient communication. Ranjana’s writing has been published worldwide, including in Time magazine and The Week, and in prominent medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and JAMA. Her columns in the Guardian on the intersection of medicine and humanity have been twice nominated as a finalist for the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. In 2024, Beehive News named her the top international health columnist out of a field of 15,000 journalists. Her acclaimed non-fiction books include Tell Me the Truth (shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards), Dying For a Chat (winner, the Human Rights Literature Prize) and What It Takes to Be a Doctor (finalist, The Australian Career Book Award).
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