Born On A Cusp

Ian McEwan, shortlisted for 2007’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction and author of Atonement, is in India for the Jaipur Literature Festival.

In an interview with Hindustan Times, he speaks of his first visit to India (“I’ve never been with so many people at once, and yet I felt relaxed and ignored”), his view of fiction writing (“All fiction is localised. You write about things around you”), and why he thinks he should not be given congratulatory remarks for the Best Picture win of Atonement at the Golden Globes (“People have come up to me to congratulate about the Golden Globe, which is nonsense. Now what if the film was very bad? Would I have got the brickbats? No, and rightfully not. So why should I get the bouquets if the film is great”).

Read the HT interview here.

(McEwan’s photograph from BBC News.)