Commentators’ Footnotes
In a scintillating panel hosted by FLF organiser Jenny Hobbs, two popular book commentators, Victor Dlamini and Jenny Crwys-Williams, shared their experiences of interviewing their own favourite authors.
Victor sees the literary interview as tremendously important to writers. “Without it, the literary cycle is incomplete. Even though we don’t do their publicity, we coax insights out of them, seeing things the writer hasn’t seen in his or her own book.” He said he loved that “light bulb” moment when the writer sees that one has read his book attentively. Dlamini also liked to see the author freeing the book up to interviewer. “Some will insist on a certain interpretation and others can release the book to the reader.”
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