And there’s probably no chance that Brits also have a writer who spent several years in a German concentration camp and still kept his sense of humour. I won’t compare him to anyone since that would be an insult to the author. Well, I could suggest one Lithuanian writer – Balys Sruoga and his book Dievų miškas ( Forest of Gods). I tend to read books on neurology instead of fiction, hence the lack of recommendations. What other Estonian / Latvian / Lithuanian writer would you recommend? (And can you think of a UK writer to compare to?) I’m mostly curious to see the cultural differences between foreign writers and British readers. What interests and excites you most about this? The Market Focus programme is an opportunity to work internationally and make connections with readers and writers from overseas. What’s exciting about Estonian / Latvian / Lithuanian literature at the moment? This path doesn’t have easy parts just difficult ones. What are the hardest and easiest parts of being a writer? The worse ones focus on what’s important or interesting to me, tackling the processes in people’s minds which they’d like to keep to themselves rather than talk openly about it.
About the fact that saving it might result in the destruction of the surrounding world ( Blue Blood).About the difficulty of preserving something that’s about to collapse, especially if that something is a remote branch of the Teutonic Order.About the way all these confessions dealt with China’s culture, which is no less complex than the Christianity ( Fishes and Dragons).About several Catholic monks trying to convert three Chinese emperors.Which of these stories is more truthful? I couldn’t possibly say.Īfter that, I wrote six books in 15 years.
This perfect moment made me realise I was a writer. Depardieu glances at Blier and blurbs “I don’t like you”. At the beginning of the film Gerard Depardieu is sitting inside an empty airport when suddenly Bernard Blier, an actor not really known in Britain, takes a seat next to him. The second story is wholly different: I was 35 years old, watching the French absurd comedy, Cold Breakfast. So I read A Hundred Zen Stories and wrote my first book Strekaza. The worst thing about it was that not only had I not written anything, I hadn’t really read anything either. And what have I written so far? “Nothing” was the reply. Everyone believed in me so much… my professors, my grandma, everyone. The first one goes like this: I was 35 years old and felt like I wasn’t doing anything with my life. When I’m asked how I became a writer, I usually tell one of two stories. Tell us about your writing and your literary background.
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