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Title	Boris Akunin interview, 2003 May 15
Interviewee	Akunin, B. (Boris)
Interviewer	Martinson, Connie
Book Title	The winter queen
Subject	Fandorin, Erast (Fictitious character) Detectives
Coverage - Temporal	Nineteenth century
Coverage - Spatial	Russia
Description	Boris Akunin discusses his book, “Winter Queen.” He begins by sharing that this novel is the first from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels that will eventually consist of 16 books. Akunin explains that the book’s protagonist, Erast Fandorin, is a young detective in Russia. Akunin decided to make it so that Erast was born exactly one hundred years earlier than himself, so that it would be easier for him to calculate how old he is each year in the 19th century. He also explores how Erast changes and matures into what he calls a “Superhero” over the course of the novels. Akunin compares the young Erast to a setter, clumsy and sniffing the wind for clues and later he also compares him to a cat with nine lives. He goes on to explain his writing process and how he first envisioned the opening scene of the novel and then worked from there. Later in the interview he shares that before he became a novelist he was a philologist, critic, essayist, and a literary translator of Japanese literature.
Publisher	The Drucker Institute
Date	2003-05-15
Language	eng
Source	Betacam tape.
Collection	Connie Martinson Talks Books - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cmt
Rights	All rights are retained by The Drucker Institute. For permission to use this item, contact The Drucker Institute, http://www.thedruckerinstitute.com
Type	Moving Image
Format	video/f4v
Duration	00:14:30
Object File Name	cmt00388_0002

Boris Akunin interview, 2003 May 15

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