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“Freedom means to be able to use the full richness of your life”- interview with Hanne Ørstavik
“Writing is in my genes”. Interview with Zeruya SHALEV
„I’m not one of those people you read about who have been writing novels since the age of two”. Interview with M.L. STEDMAN
„The worst thing for you as a writer is to begin to plagiarize yourself”. Interview with Kei MILLER
Interview with Andrei Kurkov: ”I decided to be a writer when I found out that writers don’t go to work”
Interview with Will Self – „My extreme dark worlds are just a way to draw attention to what’s really around”.
During the International Literature Festival in Bucharest (5-8 December 2012), we spoke with one of the special guests, Will Self about religion, democracy, capitalism, literary conventions. Will Self is best known for novels such as The Book of Dave, Great Apes, Cock and Bull, Umbrella (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2012). Citeşte tot articolul
„It becomes harder to make jokes about political injustice”. Interview with Jonathan Coe
The first night of the International Literature Festival in Bucharest (5-8 December 2012) was dedicated to Will Self and Jonathan Coe, who made quite an impression. While Will Self was very flamboyant and colourful, Jonathan Coe displayed a somewhat cold, elegant, but witty attitude. Jonathan Coe is best known for novels such as What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep or The Rain before it Falls. He is also passionate about music and explains why it is important for a writer to get his inspiration from the reality surrounding him. Citeşte tot articolul
Uzma Aslam Khan (interview): „Writing is a compulsion. I have to do it, it isn’t a choice.“
Parinoush Saniee (interview) – “I wanted to introduce a generation of Iranian women with all the difficulties they encounter”
Reading My Shares, I always wondered how is the female author who wrote it. How does Parinoush Saniee live in Iran? How was she able to publish such a book? How did she manage to write such a complex story, on so many levels, which reflects perfectly an epoque from the woman's perspective, one human being that, as we well know, doesn't have a very happy fate in Iran?
So I took her an interview in which I asked her many things about women, Iran, rights, about politics, society, but especially about literature. Citeşte tot articolul
„It mattered more «what» you were, than «who» you were”. Interview with Saša Stanišić
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„If we where to be judged by what we think, then the worst and most horrible people in the world would be writers”. Interview with Mikkel Birkegaard
Interview: Michele Mari, the author of Rosso Floyd
Luzinterruptus, an interview
Sofi Oksanen – “It was quite obvious for me that I’d never marry an author”
Sofi Oksanen, novelist and playwright, is probably the most famous Finnish contemporary writer. The novel Purge (2008) was translated in 43 languages and won many distinctions, as Prix Femina Etranger (2010), The European Book Prize (2010), Le Prix du Roman FNAC (2010). She also wrote Stalin's Cows (2003, her debut), Baby Jane (2005) and When the Doves Disappeared (2012, the most recent book published by her). Citeşte tot articolul