I met Mr. Elias Khoury in Bucharest just before he presented his last book, The Children of the Ghetto - My name is Adam, at Bookfest, an international book fair held annually not only in the Romanian capital, but also in other cities across the country. His novel was recently translated in Romanian by Polirom Publishing House, and I was very honored to ask Mr. Khoury several questions about his book, about how he conceives literature, its meaning, its relation to reality and act of writing itself. Citeşte tot articolul
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Anna Axfors: “Loneliness can arrive suddenly, but you shouldn’t use it to make your life more boring or sadder than it already is”
One of the most important events of this summer, especially for the young public, was the "Zona nouă" International Student Festival in Sibiu. Organized by the editors of the magazine with the same name and supported by the "Lucian Blaga" University, the festival, which reached its third edition this year, aims to promote young poets both from Romania and from abroad. The readings and the debates included in this edition's official program managed to create not only an intercultural dialogue between the guests and the audience, but also an engaging atmosphere, proving that poetry can still be, and not just for only a few people, an actual way of life. Citeşte tot articolul
Vesna Goldsworthy: “Writing is not gendered. It is good or bad” (interview)
Vesna Goldsworthy is a Serbian writer and poet who lives in England. She worked for the BBC Serbian Service as a journalist, and now she is a professor of creative writing at Kingston University. Citeşte tot articolul
Interview: Lena Andersson, „I have made it my mission to eradicate presumptions about innate, inevitable and collective differences between the sexes”
Interview with Guillermo Arriaga: „Stories never die”
Lars Saabye Christensen: “If you write one extra word in the sex scene it becomes extremely embarrassing for everybody” – interview
Interview with Mike Ormsby: ”Writing a novel is like being in a band or a sports club: you need a good team”
“It’s much easier to make a woman scandalous, still to this day” – interview with Sarah Dunant
Interview with Andrei Kurkov: ”I decided to be a writer when I found out that writers don’t go to work”
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