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born 1954 South Africa
Michael Cawood Green (born 10 April 1954) is a South African born academic and writer. Green is most noted for his monograph, Novel Histories which explores the uses of history in South African fiction.
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Travelling is the very nature of fiction.
I only know that when one is writing truly creatively, one works in images, not ideas.
I am fascinated by, and have written on, literal and cultural translation.
In essence fiction is about the challenge of otherness.
A comma is a political act, in certain circumstances.
It is the ‘otherness’ of fiction that interests me.
Writing fiction is telling the deepest truth you know through otherness.
Specific examples, researched and examined in detail, are enormously telling, generalities blur into the banal.
I did want to create a ‘thick’ sense of history, a story steeped in its time that resists easy modern appropriation.
I am terrified that this may define me as a writer.
I love Austin, Texas, as much as London or York, Durban as much as any of these.
This book has been so thoroughly written and rewritten that I do think I have weighed every word: certainly this is my ideal way of writing.
I’m very excited by the script.
I felt no need for permission as such.
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