Dinaw Mengestu Zitate

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.

Dinaw Mengestu

Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich neige dazu, längere erzählerische Stücke zu schreiben, nachdem ich einen Roman fertiggestellt habe - wenn die Fiktion beendet und verstaut ist, und ich habe die Chance, alle Ideen, die in meinen Romanen stecken, mitzunehmen und direkt mit ihnen zu arbeiten.

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