Hello, this is Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is a political activist, playwright and novelist.
He won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwriting Award for if you don't let us dream, we won't let you sleep at the Royal Court.
His play Lampeduser has been performed in 40 countries, with projects in development for stage, film and television.
Prior to his writing career, he'd been an international athlete and a Scottish 400 metre champion, a teacher on death row at San Quentin, California's most notorious prison, as well as some of London's biggest jails.
A political activist arrested on four continents, a techno dj, a tree surgeon and a carpenter.
Three Burials is his debut novel.
Anders Lustgarden.
Welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you for having me.
It's a bit early for me, but there's writers for you.
That's just the most extraordinary cv.
And I mean, writing is really the last thing on it.
You came to it very late.
Yeah, I did, yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't write anything until I was about 30 and I never really intended to write anything like.
It was not a.
I don't really understand or necessarily trust writers who know that it's the thing they've always wanted to do.