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Paul Tudor Owen

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Paul Tudor Owen's debut novel The Weighing of the Heart won the People's Book Prize for fiction 2020. He was born in Manchester in 1978, and was educated at the University of Sheffield, the University of Pittsburgh, and the London School of Economics. He began his career as a local newspaper reporter in north-west London, and currently works at the Guardian, where he spent three years as deputy head of US news at the paper’s New York office. ...more

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Paul Tudor Owen There are those books you love reading because you enjoy spending time with the characters in that particular setting so much. I remember as a teenage…moreThere are those books you love reading because you enjoy spending time with the characters in that particular setting so much. I remember as a teenager racing through Another Country by James Baldwin and thinking these musicians, actors and writers living their turbulent lives in 1950s Greenwich Village were just the coolest people in the world. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, again in New York, that was another one for me at that age – he would be unbearable to have round for a cup of tea now though.

You’d also have a memorable afternoon with the cloistered university students in Donna Tartt’s Secret History – there’s that fantastic line where Henry is “quite startled to learn from me than men had walked on the moon … ‘How did they get there? When did this happen?’” (less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Paul Tudor Owen I don’t get writers’ block very often – which I think comes from my journalistic training. If I want to get from A to B in a chapter, and I’m not quit…moreI don’t get writers’ block very often – which I think comes from my journalistic training. If I want to get from A to B in a chapter, and I’m not quite sure how, I can just get there in a pretty straightforward way, move on to the next thing, and come back to that bit later. I don’t sit there agonising over it.

But I get very distracted when I’m working at home – start watering the plants, or organising my books – there’s a cliché isn’t there that a writer’s home is very tidy because instead of sitting there working they’ve been distracting themselves every few minutes by gradually tidying the place up.

When we were living in New York we only had a small apartment, and it would have been pretty antisocial of me to try and take up all the space writing. My office was in a WeWork co-working space and it meant I could book other WeWork rooms in offices around the city. I would go from WeWork to WeWork and work in all these different offices with different views. It was a great way to see the city. It was great to feel immersed in New York in my writing and to be seeing the sights of New York out of the window as I was working.(less)

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