Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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7. LIST A FEW OF YOUR OWN FAVOURITE WRITERS AT THE MOMENT AND TELL ME WHY THEY HAVE AROUSED YOUR INTEREST...

7. List a few of your own favourite writers at the moment and tell me why they have aroused your interest. Are there any new writers who should be watched closely?

God, impossible question. My favourite writers tend to remain the same. A mix of classic and new, genre and not. Bulgakov, William Gibson, James Lee Burke, Borges, Marques, Andrea Camilleri, Haruki Murakami (and Riu Murakami come to that). I loved Victor Pelevin’s Sacred Book of the Werewolf (called literaturnaya Viagra by Russian critics). Sergei Lukyaneko Night Watch was fun. I tend to think everyone should read M John Harrison’s Light… 

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