It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
From Helen Dunmore
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.
I was always influenced by language.
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
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