The Short Story - It is in Crisis
I came across this interview with a Nepali author named Ramesh Vikal. It’s cute because he starts the interview by talking about this book he’s translating from the English language, an interesting science fiction novel written by a 19-year-old girl named Mary Shelley. At no time during the interview does it come up that this girl wrote this book 200 years ago! But I guess it will be new to the Nepali, once it’s translated, of course.
It’s interesting to think that a novel that is required reading for every American high school sophomore, with all of its film adaptations, is getting a fresh reading somewhere in Nepal.
When asked about the current environment for the short story, he said:
Well the environment for writing stories is in progress. But it is too little I should say. The number of dedicated short story writers is very few.
And when asked if he’s working on any stories:
I haven’t been able to write any stories at the moment. It is in crisis.
I’m not sure what he thought was in crisis, his writing or the short story. Perhaps both?
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