1. How was the story book "Under the house eaves and other stories" created and how long did you work on it?
The book was many years in the making. It is, in fact, a selection of stories that I have written over the past thirty years.
2. What is literature for you?
For me, literature is air, bread and water.
3. Do you have any literary role models?
Role models? I don't know if they are my role models, but a number of writers often march through my head. From ours: Ćamil Sijarić, Andrić, Selimović, Ibrišimović, Vešović, but there is one writer from Serbia, his name is Miroslav Popović, I have rarely had such a lively novel in my hands as his "Destinies", it almost jumped out of my hands while I was reading. He didn't write much - that novel and a few books of stories, but much more than some who have published about fifty editions. And since we are in Serbia, I bow down to everything that Bora Stanković has written. And from those who are a little further away, I could list a summer day until noon, but I will only mention some names: Juan Rulfo and the novel "Pedro Paramo", oh what a novel it is and what a holiday for the reader. Then Marquez, Llosa, Cortazar... Ismail Kadare and his "Fortress", then Russian classics and especially Turgenev and his "Hunter's Notes". These came to mind right now... There are many, many more...
4. What literary forms are you most comfortable with?
This is usually judged by others, and when it comes to me, some very serious writers say that I am best at prose, while others say that I am best at poems. I personally perceive the prose text as a disjointed poem.
5. Are you currently writing anything new?
It is always noted and written, there is always smoke over my literary workshop, which is to say that there is a living soul in it.
6. What does your writing process look like?
My writing process has no set rhythm; I write when inspiration hits me, and then I don't look at whether it's day or night and whether I've had any long work. For me, inspiration is God's message and I must not hide from it.
7. Do you follow the domestic literary scene – and what do you mean by it?
By the domestic literary scene, I mean everything that is published in the ex-YU area, with the exception of Slovenia and Macedonia to some extent. I can't get to their books. I follow as much as I can, both the domestic and foreign literary scene. I don't know how a writer can live without following what is blooming in the literary fields.
8. What are you reading right now?
I have just read two Bulgarian writers, Georgi Gospodinov and Georgi Bardarova, I am currently reading Maria Todorova. The last months have been devoted to Bulgarian literature.