AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Imraan Coovadia

In an interview, author Imraan Coovadia talked about his career. He thinks the first thing he wrote often, like most people, was his name. After that he doesn’t remember needing to keep his thoughts on paper except to prevent himself forgetting something or other. He's never kept a diary, or really enjoyed writing letters, but he does have a notebook of ideas. He reads lots of different things, and kinds of things, from Gandhi’s letters (right now) to science fiction, history, cookbooks. There are lots of interesting things in the world. He used to love libraries and book stores, and went to both a lot. Now they seem like relics of a former civilisation, based in part on books rather than digital information, which reminds him that he may have chosen the wrong thing to spend his life doing.