Dear Andrew!
It was a great privilege to talk to you!!! Andrew about himself: I have partly earned my living over more than 50 years both as a storyteller and storywriter, working as a storyteller in 55 countries, mainly in schools but also in cafes and in the street, and as a storywriter for West German Television, the BBC and ITV, Oxford University Press and EJ Arnold. My latest book of short stories, Beggar in Bogota, privately published, is being translated into Russian by the Boris Pasternak Museum in Moscow, and I am due to give a webinar for the Museum on September 16, 2017. As well as telling and writing stories, I illustrate them. (My first love and first training was in Fine Art.) My stories are mainly from my own experience, some reflecting my own life and work, whether in England, my birthplace, or in Hungary, my present home. Some are traveller’s tales, drawn from things observed or heard about elsewhere. Most of my drive to write stories is to record the blend of the universal and the unique that is to be found in whatever we do, wherever and whoever we are. My stories are short, some are just moments. I revel in the ubiquity of the values and concerns we share, I also revel in our utter idiosyncrasy. I hope my stories will remind you of the many, many experiences you have had yourselves of individuals living out their lives.
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