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How to pronounce Aysegül Savas: EYE-shi-gool sha-VAS
Aysegül Savas is the author of the acclaimed novels Walking on the Ceiling and White on White. Her work has been translated into six languages and has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris.
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AO: Your third novel The Anthropologists follows on your first child's birth. Did you question your work in relation to becoming a mother?
AS: I didn't ever question why I was writing, but I did ask myself when I was editing The Anthropologists, how I could relate to these characters who are smoking and having these lengthy discussions. I asked myself who wrote this? Who even has time for any of that? The positive is that now I have much more clarity on what my priorities are — I only want to write full time and it was a nice clarification for me that this is all I want to do with the little time that I have.
AO: In a way, you are living the future version of the characters in The Anthropologists.
AS: I think this is true for many writers, that their characters grow up, but they're always lagging in some years. In Walking on the Ceiling, I wrote about a character in her early 20s, and I was in my late 20s. In White on White, I wrote about a graduate student, and now I'm writing about a postgraduate student. Probably next I'll be writing about someone in their late 30s.
AO: The Anthropologists originated from a short story published in...
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