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Blue on Oswald Zebra’s New Books Black Lid Spring Gorgeous Blooms In the Great Cemetery in Riga, where these books are buried, the novel Live!the main character Fricis Brīvzemnieks (real name Fricis Treilands, 1846-1907), remains in history as a pioneer and maintainer of the Latvian folklore collection movement. However, his resuscitation in the novel claims that the Freemiah has moved much larger processes, and with prose instruments exploring how it could have happened and whether the Freedom had wanted it. With a former colleague Day During the conversation, we inevitably come to the question of whether future people will read thick and printed books, and Oswald turns out to be a cautious optimist: « There is such an interesting trend, even very early, that reading books at one moment could become very stylish, like counterculture: black clothes, one hand cigarette, second book. » 2017 for the year 1905 dedicated to a novel In the shadow of the rooster hill Zebris received the European Union Literature Award, and he has just written a children’s book for his favorite place in Klapkalnciems, where the mountain’s clapper lives, and lets go ideas for competition, thinking about the next job.

You said this is the third interview today, after radio and television. Can you tell the same story every time?

Sometimes libraries invite writers to a meeting with readers. If you are going to several libraries, then there is a silly feeling, it seems that you can’t talk the same, but there is nothing else to say about that book.

This question will definitely be from those you have answered several times, but I will ask: If you once wrote this during school, why did you go to literature so late at the age of 32?

Because I had unhealthy respect and fear of writers and literature, it seemed a complete magic mountain, a distant and unattainable. When I got courage and went to the Literary Academy of the Writers’ Union, I saw that there were other censors like me. My leader was Laima Muktupāvela (now Laima Kota – Ed.), She encouraged me very much, Ieva Kolmane, who at the time led the magazine Flagpublished my first stories, then I realized that nothing dramatic happens if I was trying to approach that magic mountain. So until then, I just lacked the courage. My first collection of stories came out in 2010 Freedom in networksIt got the debut prize, then the confidence continued to come. By the way, Day book They did not want to publish their stock at the green, but John’s roses The publisher took.

At first, I had huge ambitions, from today’s experience, quite amusing that I can write my texts in a language that I don’t have to think about the storyline – the language will do everything itself, it will be something shaky and unheard. But it is for almost all young authors. For a few years I have been running a workshop at the Literary Academy and I can say that I am not different from the majority – one is convinced of my language, another seems to be writing a story that everyone will be on the ass …

Do you now slow down when writing your language so that it does not try to do everything alone?