Featured Interview With Anna Dowdall
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Anna Dowdall was born in Montreal, Canada, and recently moved back there, which surprised no one but her. She’s been a reporter, a college lecturer and a horticultural advisor, as well as other things best forgotten. Her well-received domestic mysteries, April on Paris Street, After the Winter and The Au Pair, feature evocative settings and uninhibited female revenge, with a seasoning of moral ambiguity and noir. Her poetry adorns Montreal’s rue de la Poesie.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Very early. One day my dad brought home blank waste paper from the mill where he worked, and that was it.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
P.D. James, Dickens, and many authors too obscure to ring a bell with anyone. I like mixed genres that combine elements from several kinds of narratives. I like challenging books. I have a little shrine in my head to Ursula Curtiss, a sadly forgotten American writer.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
In April on Paris Street (Guernica Editions, Toronto), a private investigator goes to Paris on a weird assignment, only to be sucked into a Thelma and Louise adventure of the soul. It’s a literary mystery, and the writing has been acclaimed variously as poetic and beautiful.
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