Une interview de Karin Lowachee

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Karin Lowachee est en interview ici.

Elle parle notamment de Warchild

"According to your website bio, you were born in Guyana, grew up in Canada and had experience working in the Arctic. How much do you think your international experiences influence your writing?
Karin Lowachee : I moved from Guyana when I was rather young, though I do have pretty stark memories from there regardless. My main life experience has been in Southern Canada and I think that has influenced me more than anything else, because this area is very multicultural. Even if I’m not wholly conscious of how that affects my writing, I think it’s given me a perspective that maybe some other people who grew up in other countries might not have quite so embedded. I did not grow up thinking it was strange or remarkable to meet 9 different cultures just walking down the street, to have friends of different cultures from literally around the world, to hear different languages in my neighborhoods, to eat different foods and to smell different kinds of dishes cooking in my friends’ homes. Canada, especially this area of it, is very fortunate to have both blended and distinct cultures all around and I reckon I’ve breathed that into my writing in one way or another – where race isn’t something I feel I need to comment on in paragraphs all the time, where my characters accept different languages and the different way people look without making it exceptional. I’m speaking of my SF series, naturally. To me true acceptance of people and cultures comes when you feel no need to always point it out as if it’s exceptional (as in, to be excepted) or new. I have friends of all different races and cultures, and I feel no need to bring it to light when we’re together. We all just accept these aspects of one another, we love and appreciate it as inherent, we’re not too precious about it either, and we get on with it. I think without thinking too much about it, that attitude has been in my WARCHILD universe books."