I have often been told that I ought to write more drama. Trouble is, drama is not written in a vacuum. Connections with theatre are practically a must, and I have had very few, although I love both theatre and film. A few years ago I wrote a pretty good piece called "Nirvana," about a "sixties" North American woman returning to Nepal and encountering something very strange. It would make a fine radio drama, I think. Or an even better opera libretto, but who produces new opera in Canada? Thanks to Maureen Labonté, I did once get a workshop at the NAC, but saying you've had a piece workshopped is like saying you've been in and out of a Gulag. "We're glad you survived-and what else is new?" I hope you like my little piece on Knut Hamsun. It was written long before the appearance of that wonderful Swedish-Norwegian movie that features Max von Sydow as Hamsun.

I was pleased to see my little play mentioned in Hamsun-nytt, Number 4, 2004—the newsletter of the Knut Hamsun Society in Hamarøy, Norway.