ALL THE COLOURS WE CANNOT SEE

One Hundred years of Solitude, Ani Petrosyan’s brilliant art, Saatchi Gallery Marquez.

This might be a strange thing for a fiction writer to say, but I do not like the word ‘fiction’ . In the English language, especially.

You see, following its etymology from Latin “fictio”—meaning “contrive, invent or feign”— in everyday English we tend to describe ‘fic…