Overview
Thorsten is originally from Germany and speaks German. When he married, he and his wife moved to Canada where he learned to speak English. While he had written some books in German, he now writes in English.
We discuss his book Grolar about a hybrid polar bear / grizzly bear that is attacking a town. We discuss his other books - one of which is a mandatory read in German high school.
His Book
https://www.amazon.com/Grolar-Half-Grizzly-Polar-Bear/dp/1980305773?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=7941a166df7d0da54d325fb1fad776b5&camp=1789&creative=9325
Favorites
https://www.amazon.com/Loitering-Collected-Essays-Charles-DAmbrosio/dp/1935639870?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=961086744828f0ee7cc026b03157afe8&camp=1789&creative=9325
YouTube
https://youtu.be/aegWAocAmYQ
Transcript
Hello, welcome
[00:00:43] Stephen: to episode one 12 of discovered word. This is an interesting and exciting interview today, I'm talking to Thurston Nash. We talk about his book grower, which is a polar bear grizzly bear combined. And it's a story set up north of me, uh, in [00:01:00] Canada, which is where he lives. But, uh, this is really interesting for everybody because originally thons German and speaks German, but moved to Canada with his wife and kids and learned English and writes in English.
And we talk a bit about that in his book. And, uh, it, it's just an interesting conversation because I haven't had a chance to talk to somebody about. Other languages as much as this, even though there have been quite a few on that, do speak other languages. German's the first time I believe. So it's a really great discussion.
The book sounds really interesting set in an area that is exciting, uh, up in Canada with, uh, this giant grizzly attacking people. So sit back and enjoy Thorston. Good afternoon. Welcome to discovered wordsmith. How are you today? Oh, I'm
[00:01:51] Thorsten: doing great. Thank you. Thank you. How are you doing? I'm
[00:01:54] Stephen: doing good. You mentioned it's a nice day where you are, where you live.
[00:01:58] Thorsten: Oh yeah. I'm in [00:02:00] WestBridge, Alberta, Canada. Okay. And yeah, so far we didn't have a, a lot of great days where you could be actually outside. So I would reduce it to three or four comfort, a place. So I did some garden
[00:02:14] Stephen: work today. Nice. Yeah. I live in Ohio right below lake Erie and we've. Freezing weather in the morning, like 27 when I woke up and then 67, when I took the dog out a little bit ago.
Before we talk about your book, tell us a little bit about you, what you like to do your hobbies and other things about you that you care to share.
[00:02:37] Thorsten: okay. I, I just start rambling on and you just do the timeout or something.
[00:02:42] Stephen: we like that around here.
[00:02:43] Thorsten: So obviously, uh, I'm an author. I'm an novelist. And as you probably hear in the audience, it's my second language I'm operating in right now.
I'm a published traditionally published author in Germany. And my books are read in schools between Denmark and [00:03:00] Italy. One is a mandatory read in one province. Nice in Germany for the next two years in Germany, language art in English. It is 1984. So that's quite an honor from there. And I publish, I still self-publish, for example, and hybrid, that would be the name.
And so I'm coming from a storyteller side and if I'm not writing poems or short stories or novels, I like to write songs. I'm the singer songwriter for a hobby. I really just pleasure. I dunno. It's a different energy that comes outta it.
[00:03:33] Stephen: Yeah. Yeah. I actually. Found a lot of authors play music or they're in it, computers.
I don't know why that is. It just seems like quite a few of them are that way. So that's good. What instrument?
[00:03:47] Thorsten: It's mostly guitar.