Also, as you might imagine, in the particular geography in which I grew up there were all kinds of people living the most extraordinary lives. I was fortunate, too, in having a mentor who consciously stimulated my interest in reading and the development of an interior life. It was, though, in many respects a fairly isolated childhood in terms of interaction with other children and so there was plenty of opportunity for the inner fantasy world to grow. I don't think, though, that it was that particular geography that made a writer of me. I had a particular childhood that enabled me to write that book. If much has been made of the geography of my childhood, it is because it impacted so very much on Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter. Did those years make a writer of you? Or do you think you would have become a writer even if you had a perfectly normal, suburban, childhood? Much has been made of your colourful childhood in Cape Town harbour, where your parents managed the Queens Hotel until you were twelve years old. Menings | Opinion > Onderhoude | Interviews > English > ABSA Chain: Sonja Loots in conversation with Pamela JoosteĪBSA Chain: Sonja Loots in conversation with Pamela Jooste
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