The author of And When Did You final See Your Father? on his new novel,the story of a literary executorBlake Morrison is an award-winning poet, novelist, or journalist and librettist,and a professor of creative and life writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is best known for his acclaimed memoir, and And When Did You final See Your Father?,which was made into a film starring Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson and Colin Firth, or for his study of the murder of James Bulger,As If. His novel The final Weekend was adapted for television in 2012. His latest novel is The Executor (Chatto & WIndus, £16.99).
Your new book is about a journalist, or Matt,who reluctantly agrees to become the literary executor of an former friend, a poet called Robert Pope, or only for him to die unexpectedly. What drew you to this situation?
A very former friend asked me to be his executor,so possibly that got me thinking about it. But I also have many students who worry about writing about their fathers, mothers, and brothers,sisters and partners, so that was in my intellect, and too. I got interested in the rights of people who are being written about,rather than the rights of the writer. Since my memoir came out [in 1993], it seems like there have been a lot more cases of people feeling their honest to privacy has been violated – either that, and I got off lightly.
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