This text emerged from the interview recorded in February 2018, when Ignas met Boolie in Tel-Aviv. They talked over dinner at the restaurant by the sea. What’s your full name? We were chatting with a young Jewish man, and I told him that we’re going to publish a
David Grossman kindly accepted Ignas in his private house near Jerusalem and they talked for about an hour, touching some politics, but mostly discussing literature.
Joanne Harris released her most famous novel, “Chocolat” in 1999. She arrived at the Literary Festival in Vilnius in November 2018. The conversation took place at the Old Town Hotel, “Shakespeare”.
Writer and literary researcher Professor Hans-Ulrich Treichel arrived to Vilnius International Book Fair to meet readers of his novel “Pražuvėlis”. We talked in his hotel room in February 2019.
Ignas heard of Kaz after my friend Eleonora Jonušienė invited him to Lithuania to speak at a conference of animators. Later Ignas read his comic books “Underworld”, “Sidetrack City”. They talked in outdoor café in Vilnius Old Town in September 2018.
The interview took place in November 2018, in Vilnius, when Alan Lightman, an American writer, physicist and social entrepreneur, was invited to speak at a literature festival.