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'We are calling this process, whereby the writer situates a story in a place by capturing it with words, "translation". It's a sideways manoeuvre. Part interpretation, part alchemy. Equally faithful and unfaithful to what is there and will be there.'

'Writing not only takes place, in the sense of being situated somewhere: it also captures place, and thus, in a way, comes to possess it.'