What is it about?
An interview with best-selling Australian author, Hannah Kent, on her approach to writing biofiction: fiction which takes the name of a real person for its protagonist.
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Why is it important?
In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people. In this interview with Hannah Kent, we focus on her approach to the research-led form she calls 'speculative biofiction' and particularly her focus on criminal women.
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This volume contains interviews with biographical novelists from around the globe, and I'm very pleased that Hannah Kent's thoughts on writing can be read alongside those of people such as Emma Donoghue, David Lodge and Chika Unigwe.
Kelly Gardiner
La Trobe University
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This page is a summary of: Fictions of Women, Bloomsbury Academic,
DOI: 10.5040/9781501341496.0012.
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