{"id":42216,"date":"2025-09-28T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/42216\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:00:13","slug":"minneapolis-writer-kate-dicamillos-latest-is-lost-evangeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/42216\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis writer Kate DiCamillo&#8217;s latest is &#8216;Lost Evangeline&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">A: I didn\u2019t think of it either until somebody who had read it said, \u201cOf course you would write about a small person, being a small person.\u201d You reveal yourself, whether you want to or not. As we\u2019re talking about this, I\u2019m thinking, \u201cOK, there\u2019s the shoemaker element, the small person in a gigantic world.\u201d Going to sea? I have never wanted to go to sea. But wanting to become yourself in the world? That\u2019s basically what Evangeline is doing and that\u2019s something that is very much me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Q: At the end of \u201cEvangeline,\u201d there\u2019s a sweet note about Denmark, which pops up often in your books, starting with the word \u201cNorendy\u201d coming from Danish writer Isak Dinesen\u2019s work, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">A: Denmark is very resonant for me because of Dinesen. I\u2019d like to go to her home, which is now a museum. And also because Hans Christian Andersen, another big influence on me, is from there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Q: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andersenstories.com\/en\/andersen_fairy-tales\/the_red_shoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.andersenstories.com\/en\/andersen_fairy-tales\/the_red_shoes\">He loved a shoe<\/a>! I like the idea that shoemakers build things people need when they go off on adventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">A: I never really made this connection, speaking of Hans Christian Andersen, but shoes were a real preoccupation of his. His grandfather was a cobbler, same as my grandfather was a cobbler. It\u2019s very interesting, but also I feel like, \u201cOoh, don\u2019t look at that too closely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A: I didn\u2019t think of it either until somebody who had read it said, \u201cOf course you would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-42216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}