The Models for My Novels
Since attending Under the Volcano in 2017 as a fledgling fiction writer, Ayşegül Savaş has published three acclaimed novels, a collection of short stories and a work of nonfiction.
Like many writers, she reads to write—not so much to emulate but to immerse herself in the narrative strategies of the masters, both contemporary and from the past.
In this wide-ranging talk, she shares some of the books that were most formative in her development as a writer and what she learned, and continues to learn, from their examples.