INTERVIEWS IN MAGAZINES
I don't like long interviews but I couldn't say no to an interview for MIAU, my favourite Slovakian multi-award winning magazine. Selected interview questions translated to English are here.
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INTERVIEW BY BOOKREVIEW
What are you most proud of?
For climbing Mont Blanc with a half-frozen leg.
What goes through your mind when you hold your new book in your hands for the first time?
Gratefulness that I could nurture my thoughts up to this stage and hope that they can now continue the journey without me.
What piece of advice would you give to aspiring writers?
Read, write, read, and look beyond the borders of your craft and heart.
Read in full here.
INTERVIEW BY ROB MCLENNAN
Where does a poem or work of prose usually begin for you? Are you an author of short pieces that end up combining into a larger project, or are you working on a "book" from the very beginning?
Poems begin in small happenstances, novels begin in more predictable places. Both need equal attention to make it into a book.
Do you have any theoretical concerns behind your writing? What kinds of questions are you trying to answer with your work? What do you even think the current questions are?
It varies from book to book, from poem to poem. I guess the perennial question that animates my writing is the question of Love (with capital L). Love towards the living and non-living beings of water that surround us, that constitute us, and that we keep on ruining and repairing.
What is the best piece of advice you've heard (not necessarily given to you directly)?
Listen before you speak, read before you write, live before you judge.
What kind of writing routine do you tend to keep, or do you even have one? How does a typical day (for you) begin?
I have no writing routine; I write when I can. My typical day begins with a small bowl of rice, a big cup of green tea and a smile.
Read in full here.
INTERVIEW BY PARTHIAN
A lot of your poems in Butterfly’s Trembling seem to be quite disillusioned with this ‘digital age’ in which we now live, particularly when you write about the use of technology in relationships. Do you think that technology used in this context is purely negative?
E: Definitely not! As Alain Badiou wrote, ‘We shouldn’t underestimate the power love possesses to slice diagonally through the most powerful oppositions and radical separations’. This includes technology and the fact that it can both impoverish and enrich love.
Read in full here or watch in this video.
CONVERSATION WITH READERS
This was supposed to be a Zoom conversation with readers interested in my novel The Love Virus but I messed up the recording. Here is a rough transcript of what I intended to say. To everyone watching this on YouTube: Many apologies for the bad sound, I had to edit this in places where the sound was lost completely. Please follow the subtitles. Thank you, Eleni