Writer Kjell Westö: "As a writer, you must dare to be alone with your thoughts."
Finnish-Swedish writer Kjell Westö reflects on history, fiction and the moral imagination behind his novels. The interview traces Westö’s long engagement with the turbulent decades of the 20th century—particularly the 1930s and early 1940s. “A novel's strength is that it can depict how major changes impact the individual,” he says. Westö speaks about why he repeatedly returns to moments of political and social rupture, from Finland’s civil war in 1918 to the shadow of the Second World War.
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