ABSTRACT
Andrew Cowan is an award-winning novelist. His novel Pig (1994) won a Betty Trask Award and several other prizes, including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Cowan’s other novels include Common Ground (1996), Crustaceans (2000), What I Know (2006), Worthless Men (2013) and Your Fault (2019). He has written about the practice and process of writing in The Art of Writing Fiction (2011), and also written, in numerous essays and articles, about the difficulty and history of Creative Writing study as an academic university discipline. His fiction is typified by a meticulous attention to detail, delivered in a rhythmic and distinctive voice. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he also studied on the internationally famous writing MA programme. The interview took place in 2005 at the BBC studios in Norwich and focused primarily on the approach he takes, particularly in his writing process for the early novels.
