Angela
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I just finished the audio version of your book and it earned an extra star, just for the fantastic narration. I am curious- does the author typically have involvement in selecting the narrators and the production of the audio book? Congrats on writing this spectacular novel- I loved it!
Leo Vardiashvili
Thank you Angela, Luke Thompson did a stellar job with the novel. Especially considering the complexity it presented - multiple voices of varying ages, alive and dead, etc. etc. I am very, very happy with the audiobook and it's getting a lot of compliments. Unsurprising really, considering how talented Luke is.
To answer your question, I don't know what the 'typical' scenario. But, in my case, I was presented with a shortlist of actors and in tandem with my publisher, we chose the actor we wanted to work on the audiobook.
As an aside detail, for this novel specifically, what followed was quite a bit work clarifying the pronounciation of Gerogian place names, character names and so on. Which were then passed onto Luke - again, he did an amazing job with words that are usually hard to pronounce for anyone who isn't Georgian...!
To answer your question, I don't know what the 'typical' scenario. But, in my case, I was presented with a shortlist of actors and in tandem with my publisher, we chose the actor we wanted to work on the audiobook.
As an aside detail, for this novel specifically, what followed was quite a bit work clarifying the pronounciation of Gerogian place names, character names and so on. Which were then passed onto Luke - again, he did an amazing job with words that are usually hard to pronounce for anyone who isn't Georgian...!
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Riana
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I love this quote from one of your interviews - "I think it’s Nodar who says: ‘It’s a shell, it kills anyway, it doesn’t matter where it came from. I don’t care if it’s the Russians or Georgians.’ And that kind of sums it up, it doesn’t matter [who is doing the shelling], you’re destroying things, you’re hurting people’s families.” Did you lose any family during the civil war?
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