Writer’s Block with Ferdia Lennon

His short stories have appeared in publications such as The Irish Times and the Stinging Fly. His first novel, Glorious Exploits, set in 412BC, the story of how a group of captured Athenian soldiers go about staging one of Euripides’ greatest tragedies, was published earlier this year. After spending many years in Paris, Lennon now lives in Norwich, England, with his wife and son.I think Norwich has the highest proportion of Tudor buildings of any English city.

was written on a laptop in a small studio apartment in Paris, beside a beautiful park called Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, which was actually a disused limestone quarry, and I was writing this book set in a limestone quarry. I’d go for my one kilometre walk around this park. In some ways, the pandemic conditions in which I wrotewere not ideal but the headspace and the discipline were right and I feel those circumstances are important. I work best in the mornings. I don’t look at emails.

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