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Conor Fitzgerald

Conor Fitzgerald has lived in Ireland, the UK, the United States and Italy. He has worked as an arts editor, produced a current affairs journal for foreign embassies based in Rome, and founded a translation company. He is married with two children and lives in Rome where his Commissario Alec Blume novels are set.

Interviewed 13 December 2014

Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...

Precarious, rudderless, hectic, sober, painful, varied, autonomous, tiring, stimulating and pointless.

Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...

Books, plants, rooftops, bills, taxes, light switches, tobacco, nails, screens.

Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?

Spaghetti all’aglio con tanto pepperoncino.

Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...

Pope Julius II, Liam Clancy, Shakespeare, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Marcus Aurelius, Mozart.

Six things you can't live without ...

My family, my mental faculties, sound, forgiveness, hope, carbohydrates.

Five favourite words ...

Bollocks, children, Irish, she, farther.

Four places you'd run away to ...

Canada, Shetland Island, Co. Cork, Cornwall.

Three books you've bought recently ...

Inventing the Individual, Heresies, The Zone of Interest.

Two things that make you rant ...

Institutional prose, Neoliberalism.

One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...

Stop.