LLOYD JONES INTERVIEW IN THE OBSERVER

Lloyd is the literary toast of London presently and I wonder how he has had even time to eat and sleep these past few weeks as he seems to have been interviewed by every major newspaper and magazine on both sides of the Atlanic.

I'll bet he is looking forward to things getting back to normal next week when he can turn his attention back to writing. That is of course unless he wins the big prize in which it will be a very long time indeed before his life returns to anything approaching normality!

Here is the latest interview I've read, this one with The Observer's Geraldine Bedell on Sunday:

From hard times to great expectations

The Booker favourite reflects on his slow-burn success, his debt to Dickens and the pitfalls of being an author from the other side of the world

Mister Pip, the favourite to win this week's Man Booker Prize, is the most successful novel ever to come out of New Zealand, far outpacing the 'other' New Zealand novel, Keri Hulme's 1984 Booker winner The Bone People.

The first of its author's eight novels to have been published in the UK, Mister Pip has had rave reviews in the US, won the Commonwealth Prize and been scooped up by publishers all over the world.

'Latvia fell last night,' Lloyd Jones says when I meet him in Berlin, where he is spending
a year on a New Zealand writers' residency. 'Last week, it was Serbia,
Croatia, Turkey, Greece and Iceland. I jokingly said to my Australian
publisher, "What the hell's happened to Korea?" and he said,
"Oh, we sold it last week. I forgot to mention it." So looks like
only the Inuit are holding out.'

Read the rest of the interview here............