ABSTRACT

In this interview, the Indian novelist, short story writer, poet, anthologist, and film-maker Siddhartha Gigoo recalls his early development as a writer and comments on his approach to the writing of “resistance literature”, noting how contemporary Kashmiri writers were born and brought up in the midst of a conflict that has impacted their writing as well as their political consciousness. He characterizes his own writing as an “act of preservation”. When discussing the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, their experience of persecution and eviction from the Kashmir Valley, he describes how his stories and films emerge out of a sense of longing for Kashmir. He credits his family as the source of his story-writing skills and explains what creative writing means to him in terms of inspiration, style and choice of genre. The interview began in a coffee house in New Delhi in March 2019 and continued via email in subsequent months.

摘要

在这次采访中，印度小说家、短篇小说作家、诗人、文集学家和电影制片人悉达多·吉古（Siddhartha Gigoo）回顾了他作为作家的早期发展，并评论了他撰写“抵抗文学”的方法，并指出了当代克什米尔作家是如何诞生的并在影响他们写作和政治意识的冲突中长大。他将自己的写作描述为“保存行为”。在讨论克什米尔潘迪特的流亡、他们被迫害和驱逐出克什米尔山谷的经历时，他描述了他的故事和电影是如何出于对克什米尔的渴望而产生的。他将家庭归功于他的故事写作技巧，并解释了创意写作在灵感、风格和体裁选择方面对他的意义。