Full Stop's Interview with Algerian-Italian Author Amara Lakhous

"We need scholars and critics who study the works of writers like me, writers who come from other cultures and other languages — they absolutely must give more attention to language. Because literature is language. Literature is style. It’s not just content, because we can find content everywhere. There are sociologists and anthropologists who can do a great job of describing Italy. They have data, theories, studies, statistics. But a writer arrives at it through language and describes the society that is emerging through language." - Amara Lakhous

Read the entire Full Stop interview with Amara Lakhous discussing his new book Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet here.

His 2008 novel Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio was also recently selected as Cornell University’s First Year Experience Read.