Interviews

For her part of the CAFYR research project, Vanessa Joosen conducted a series of interviews with several authors from our corpus. The focal point of these conversations is the interrelationship between the ageing process of authors and the the way in which they construct age within their stories. While some authors report to rely on personal memories of childhood as a foundation for the portrayal of juvenile characters, others derive inspiration from their immediate world and the children who inhabit it. Other questions pertain to the dynamic between authors and their readers as well as the capacity in which they adapt their texts when writing for readers of different ages.

Some authors gave us permission to publish the full interview, others felt more comfortable selecting a few quotes. Regardless of their choice, all the transcripts you can find here contain interesting insights into their writing.