What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.