Episode 112 - Kevin Sullivan: Part 5

The final part of Kevin Sullivan's conversation with This Writing Life podcast arrives after a slight delay for a summer holiday. We begin by asking whether Kevin has a typical writing day - a pressing matter given his long career as a foreign correspondent. From here we move through his creative process as a novelist (editing and re-writing) to the challenges of writing from the middle of a war zone. We also discuss his human rights work with the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), above all in identifying those murdered at Srebrenica.

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The remainder of our chat includes:

• did Kevin hesitate to return to Sarajevo after being blown-up by a landmine?
• Kevin discusses his work with ICMP, and the challenge of identifying the victims of the Srebrenica genocide
• what is the situation in Bosnia right now?
• where does Sullivan call home?

Visit the ICMP here.

Read more about Kevin's novel, The Longest Winter here.