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I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

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My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

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Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer – but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it’s all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

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April 25, 2024

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer – but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it’s all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

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April 25, 2024

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

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