Margot Livesey, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, reveals that as a nine-year-old in Scotland, she identified strongly with the orphan Jane in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

 

Margot Livesey by Tony Rinaldo

Reading Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre as a nine-year-old in Scotland,  Margot Livesey, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, reveals (Margot Livesey Mines Scottish Roots And ‘Jane Eyre’ For New Novel, here&now, 06.02.13) that she identified strongly with the orphan Jane. 

Now 81, Elena Poniatowska, a Vice-President of Interlitq, rules out possibility of writing her autobiography

Elena Poniatowska

In an interview with Noticieros Televisa (20.05.13), Elena Poniatowska, the Mexican journalist and author who is a Vice-President of Interlitq, has, at the age of 81, ruled out the possibility of writing an autobiography.

Author Sheryl Browne confesses that she would “love to chew the fat with Kathy Lette,” the wife of Geoffrey Robertson QC, a leading human rights lawyer who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq

Sheryl Browne

In an interview with Female First (18.05.13), author Sheryl Browne confesses that she would “love to chew the fat with Kathy Lette,” the wife of Geoffrey Robertson QC, a leading human rights lawyer who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq: ”I imagine would have some hilarious anecdotes about the business of writing!”

Kathy Lette

Mohsin Hamid states that Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to Issue 7 of Interlitq, was “very generous” with him

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, the U.S. novelist who contributed prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Mohsin Hamid: ‘Writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain’” (Arminta Wallace, The Irish Times, 07.05.13): He also studied creative writing with Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. “It was amazing, and they were very generous with me,” he says. “When writers of that calibre are reading your work on a weekly basis and responding to it, talking to you about it, you begin to think that maybe you can do this.

Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. Photograph: David Sleator

Toni Morrison

François Hartog, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, discusses his books Croire en l’histoire and La chambre de veille

François Hartog

In a recent interview in French with Roger Chartier, (France Culture, 01.04.13), François Hartog, the French historian who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, discusses his books Croire en l’histoire and La chambre de veille.

Roger Chartier