Angelo Tijssens: from the silver screen to the short novel 

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  Hello, this is Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today is a renowned writer of television and film from Belgium.

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  He was director Lucas Dance, co writer on award winning feature films Girl and Close.

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  He's been a columnist for the Belgian newspaper De Standard.

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  And the Edges is his debut novella.

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  It's translated into English by Michelle Hutchison and it's a tender story of love and longing.

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  It's been translated into Spanish, French and German too.

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  And it won the jury prize at the Prix Romain Gay in France.

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  Such an honour to have you in the studio.

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  Angela Taysons, welcome to meet the writers.

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  Thank you so much.

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  It's an honour to be here.

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  We're very, very pleased to get you in.

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  Obviously you don't live here and it's wonderful to have somebody

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  like you of your stature in film in the studio with us.

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  But I want to go back to the beginning because this book, the Edges is a sort of.

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  It's not exactly a coming out story, but it's about a young gay man.

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  And you were a young gay man once?

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  Yes, in small town Belgium.

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