Interviews with Amanda Michalopoulou
The City and the Writer: In Athens with Amanda Michalopoulou
Parthenon makes Athenians feel imperfect, inadequate, creating and recreating a longing for proportion, an innate obligation to beauty.
Imagining Our Own Death | Words without Borders 7/5/2020
I don’t find it useful or necessary to write about the real world the exact moment that strange and terrifying things happen.
Dictionary Under Quarantine | Fence 28/4/2020
When people still used to walk in the streets randomly, the Swiss writer Robert Walser, an idler of sorts, treated paths and forests as a carpet, asking his famous question; where would I be if I was not here?
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God’s Wife | The Paris Review 17/12/2019
My idea was to present God as a frustrated creator, a feeling all writers share. You start with this big megalomaniac idea to create a world, to change the canon, and in the middle of it you feel that something went very wrong.
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5Q interview | The Writing University 29/10/2019
Every new work comes from a question I haven’t asked before and is different from the previous one. Hopefully. I hate repetition in writing.
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Proust Questionnaire: 17 questions with AM | QLRS 4/10/2019
Truth means negotiation of the thin lines between facts, and feelings about the facts. And that you are brave enough to bear the consequences of your sincerity.
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Α writer’s profile | Deutschlandfunkkultur radio 01/12/2018
A radio interview at Deutschlandfunkkultur radio.
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Reading Greece | Greek News Agenda 22/08/2016
I don’t believe in national literature. I don’t read Kafka because of his nationality but because of what he brought to the exploration of the human fear and loneliness.
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