Interesting observation about some of my favourite writers: J.M. Coetzee is a South-African, and therefore from a mixed cultural background by default, who now resides in Australia. Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan and moved to England at the age of six. Jon McGregor was born in Bermuda and grew up in Norfolk. Rachel Seiffert grew up in England while her parents were German and Australian.

Right now I am reading Hugo Hamilton’s Speckled People, in which he describes growing up in 1950s Dublin with a German mother and an Irish father (who did not allow for English to be spoken).

These children of ours, the ones that we will have in the future, they are bound to become good writers.