Eric Forbes, who edits Quill magazine in Malaysia and blogs about books on The Good Books Guide, has made it his mission to interview (together with Tan May Lee) all the authors longlisted for the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. As part of that series, his interviews with me about Transported and with Elizabeth Smither about The Girl Who Proposed have now been posted on the site.
All the authors have been asked the same questions – the similarities and differences in their answers are fascinating!
One of the unexpected bonuses of this longlisting process for me is the opportunity to find out about so many fine short story writers throughout the world.
In other news: thanks to the New Zealand Book Council, you can Read at Work. It looks like an ordinary work PowerPoint – but look closer, and it’s literature!
