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Competition

Authors making sneaky appearances in their own novels

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3148 you were asked to imagine what the result might have been had a well-known writer slipped a self-portrait into a scene from one of their works.

The challenge was inspired by artists who insert a sneaky selfie into their paintings, a well-known example of which is Velazquez’s ‘Las Meninas’.

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