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Tana French is also the author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place and The Trespasser. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.
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Q: How has your background in theater helped you create your characters?
A: When you get right down to it, writing or at least writing in the first
person, which is what I do is basically the same skill as acting. For years,
my job as an actor was to create a character hopefully a full,
three-dimensional character and spend hours a day operating completely from
her perspective, bringing an audience into her world. Writing is just an
extension of that process. These days, my job is to create a narrator and see
everything through her eyes, filter it through her perceptions and describe it
in her voice, so I can draw readers into her world. I play my narrator on paper,
rather than on stage, but the mental process is the same. Writing scenes with a
lot of characters gets complicated I have to 'play' all of them at once,
juggle all their perspectives and motivations in my head but it's still that
same skill. I keep meaning to e-mail my old acting teacher and thank him!
Q: Are any of the characters in The Likeness based on anyone you know?
A: No, I don't base characters on real people. As soon as you do that, you're
limited by what you know about the real ...
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