Interview - Anna Horner

July 31, 2009

Baltimore Literature Examiner

Félix Calvino, author of the short story collection A Hatful of Cherries, was born in Galicia, Spain, and lives in Australia, where he is undertaking a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. In A Hatful of Cherries, Calvino presents 16 short pieces and shows that stories do not have to be long to have sufficiently developed characters. The stories are beautifully written, with Calvino painting the scene so that y...