“I am a very messy worker – I push these scenes around our table. It is a big table, and over time I realise which scenes are connected. I have never written anything from beginning to end, not a story or a novel. I just collect different scenes, and the ones that aren’t any good to me, get slipped on to the floor and eventually into the wastebasket.”
Elizabeth Strout, "My writing day: Elizabeth Strout: ‘I have never written anything from beginning to end’"
The Guardian, March 4, 2017
“[M]emory is so unstable. We think we remember things, but do we really? And yet even if the memory is not true, it came from somewhere in the character and that is interesting to me.”
Sally Campbell & Martha Greengrass, "An Exclusive Waterstones Q & A with Elizabeth Strout"
Waterstones Blog, March 3, 2017
The Malaparte Prize is an Italian literary award recognizing the work of internationally renowned writers who express in their work and lives an aesthetic sensibility allied with the spirit and role of the island of Capri as a center of literary dialogue.
Very honored to be the recipient of the 2016 Malaparte Prize for My Name is Lucy Barton, with thanks to my Italian publisher Einaudi and to president of the jury, Raffaele la Capria.
The Andrew Carnegie Medals are the first single-book awards for adult titles given by the American Library Association, and reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals who work closely with adult readers.
Honored that My Name is Lucy Barton has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.
Elizabeth Strout weaves deceptively simple stories of small-town America that explore human relationships and reveal universal truths. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Olive Kitteridge" to "My name is Lucy Barton", Strout has a flair for creating authentic, uncannily lifelike protagonists.
Elizabeth Strout: 'There’s something emotionally truthful about my characters'
FRANCE 24 English
September 19, 2017
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