- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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- Nov 07, 2020
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
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- Nov 07, 2020