Interview with Dame Muriel Spark

This interview took place on the occasion of theSecond Workshop in Anglophone Culture:“Identity,”held at the University of the Algarve (7–8 March 2003) and organized by the Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Modernas. The authors of this interview want to sincerely express their gratitude to Dame Muriel Spark for allowing us to interview her, as well as to thank the organizers of the Workshop (Mary Gwaltney Vaz, Ana Isabel Soares, Merja de Mattos-Parreira, and James Brooker) for their brilliant organization of the event. We also want to acknowledge the kindness of the sponsors that contributed to the funding of the Workshop: The British Council; The Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Ireland; The Centro de Estudos Comparatistas; The University of the Algarve; and the Municipal Council of Faro.