Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul
World Book Club
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Writing a Novel
The author was arrested and imprisoned in turkey, and after his release, recuperated here in britain. Do you think it's necessary or important for the novelist to have lived experiences of what they are writing about? Or is research or emotional empathy sufficient? I don't think that we have to personally been xperience the thing that we are going to write about er because the art the literature is based not the reality of life. The dreams are bigger than this universe. So a writer, an artist can create anything, even the things that be on life. That's why we don't need a to know things personally. We can make them alive in our mind in a new
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