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When people ask me what is my main inspiration

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I say it is the ancient Greek drama

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if you take a play like Medea that's written 2300 years ago

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it is about a woman who murders her children because of jalousy in relation to her husband

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if that is not a crime story, I don't know what a crime story is

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the only difference is that there is no police officer in it

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because in Greece at that time there was no police force

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but I can assure you if they had had a police force, there would also have a policeman in the play

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but this story uses the mirror of crime to look upon contradictions in society

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that is what interests me.

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Look at McBeth, take McBeth and put Richard Nixon in there:

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you have the same story, in a way.

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And then I can say that, yes, there are also pure crime fictions that inspire me.

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For example Sherlock Holmes.

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Because many histories talk about English society,

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about hypocrisy, about many things

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So, I don't see any differences by writing crime fiction or another novel

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I think, I put up my cheek a little and say that crime fiction is one of the oldest literary genre that exists

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it's not invented by Edgar Alan Poe, it's much older than that.

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All of my ancestors were musicians, they were playing in churches, organ players and

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my grandfather was a composer and I think that when I was young I also thought of myself as a musician

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but I realised quite quickly that (I was playing the violin) that I would never be as good as I would want to be

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so I, in a way, chose another instrument because you have to understand that writing is a sort of instrument you have in your hands

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But on the other hand you might say that music is a very essential part of writing