- Nov 07, 2020
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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being shortlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize is, of course, a real honour for me and my work. When I wrote 'Conversations with Friends,' it was hard for me to imagine the book even finding readers - so it's a huge privilege to find it judged alongside such exciting and innovative new writing. I'm very grateful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing debating did was bring me in contact with a whole social world that I had never experienced before. It's sort of a very international, very niche hobby.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.
- Hang
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It's such a strangely clinical way of talking about interpersonal dynamics, like you can do a white blood cell count and say, 'No, it's not looking good for that one.' It's impossible to have a loving relationship in which you never cause pain and no pain ever is caused to you.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.
- Than
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Trinity, at least for the first couple of years, I didn't really interact with anyone who wasn't in Trinity. A lot of the years, I lived on campus.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write them. And if people want to read them, that's great.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title 'Melissa,' and eventually, it got too long.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of experimental novels that test the boundaries of what the novel is, and 'Conversations' is not one of those. It's conventional in its structure, even though its prose style and the themes it explores and the politics that underpin it, maybe, are on the experimental side. Its basic structure is pretty conventional.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm only interested in writing about relationships.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also - philosophically, politically - I just feel like that's the interesting question for me. How much can we share with other people? I'm not interested in human individuality; I don't even know what that means.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020