News at Eleven: B&W [The Blue and White]: Are you ever treated like a celebrity?

MS [Mark Strand]: Yes. Not here so much, but in Italy, and Spain. Other countries. Because they're smaller countries and here I've been around a long time so I'm sort of old hat, but there, in the last 10 years or so, so much of my stuff has been translated and published I'm sort of a new item. So I'm treated very much like a celebrity. Especially in Italy. They've even made a movie of me. It's an hour-long documentary. It's going to be done in May.

from The Bwog: The Writer of Words

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