Avalon to Camelot interview (1986)
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sutcliff_spaceThis interview by Raymond H. Thompson will be already familiar to many here, as it's been on the University of Rochester's Camelot Project website for years. It was first published in the Arthurian journal Avalon to Camelot, and was the seed of Thompson's 1999 book, Taliesin's Successors: Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature, which you can read in full on site along with a great deal of other fascinating stuff.
This is a particularly rewarding interview for Sword at Sunset fans: it goes into the medieval and modern sources she drew on, the thinking behind some of her artistic decisions (like the Bedivere-Lancelot merger), and her experience of writing the book. There's also a little bit about her more traditional YA retellings, Tristan and Iseult and her King Arthur trilogy.
What do you guys think about Sutcliff's Arthuriana?
This is a particularly rewarding interview for Sword at Sunset fans: it goes into the medieval and modern sources she drew on, the thinking behind some of her artistic decisions (like the Bedivere-Lancelot merger), and her experience of writing the book. There's also a little bit about her more traditional YA retellings, Tristan and Iseult and her King Arthur trilogy.
What do you guys think about Sutcliff's Arthuriana?
