Guernica: Are you lazy?
Aleksandar Hemon: Yes, proudly so.
Guernica: But you tend to think out your novels a long way in advance.
Aleksandar Hemon: That’s a nice way to put it. The other way to put it is: I think about it until I have to write it. There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
–Aleksandar Hemon, from this Guernica interview with Brad Fox, will speak at the PEN World Voices Festival.
Join him and other writers from the Balkan Peninsula discuss their writing lives, at home and in exile.
