her country shaped her fiction? anne enright, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. well, it s great to have you here. now, to an outsider, you do seem like a deeply rooted writer. that sounds so dull, doesn t it? yeah, no, ishould have gone places and done things, and i did a little, but, yeah, i returned to ireland. but would you acknowledge that those roots are hugely important to you? i pass the building where i was born when i go into town. so it is, it is quite close. yeah. it s fascinating because, just the other day, i interviewed a colombian novelist and he said to me, i only really was able to write about my country and the things that really mattered to me when i left it, when i had a little bit of space and distance and freedom to actually express what i really thought. but you ve always felt free enough from within. orfoolish enough one or the other to say whatever i wanted to say at any given time. yeah, um. ..so i think it was difficult in the deep pas
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