I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
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Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel.Helen Dunmore
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
Helen Dunmore
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
Helen Dunmore
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Helen Dunmore
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
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