Myth as a metaphor – in conversation with author Maggie Stiefvater (English version)
By Sigrid Lensink-Damen, cofounder of the Fantastische UnieThis interview is a collaboration between the Fantastische Unie and Fantasize. You can read the English version here; the Dutch version is elsewhere on this website as well as on the website of the Fantastische Unie.In late September, New York Times Best Selling Author Maggie Stiefvater visited the Netherlands for YALFU, the Young Adult Literary Festival Utrecht; after which she would be available for interviews and meet-and-greets. Her new publisher in the Netherlands, Meulenhoff Boekerij, asked us if this would be a good opportunity to meet one of the "fantastic" authors we at the Fantastische Unie so diligently promote. And naturally, it is!
So, on a drizzly Monday afternoon I headed to the middle of the country to inte...