Oana Aristide on satire, space dreams and fiction

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today has taken an unusually long and winding route to fiction.

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  She was born in a small German-speaking community in Transylvania, moved to Sweden after the fall of communism,

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  trained as a macroeconomist and went on to work as a chief economist and advisor to Romania's prime minister and a writer

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  for the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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  In 2018, she took on a very different challenge,

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  restoring a heritage villa on the Greek island of Syros and turning it into a boutique hotel,

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  where she now spends much of her time when she 's not in London or Sweden.

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  Her debut novel, Under the Blue, was shortlisted for a number of book prizes.

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  Her new novel is Astronaut.

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  I was privileged enough to read this a few months ago before publication.

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  Since then, I have been recommending it to absolutely everybody.

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  This, I can assure you, is going to be a bestseller.

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  Moana Aristide, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you very much, Georgina.

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  I'm honoured to be here.

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  Honestly, this book blew me away and I hardly ever say that.

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  Just to read, it's a second novel.

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  I mean, that in itself is unusual, right?

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