I think that literature, when it’s good, as opposed to jour… - Irene Sabatini

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I think that literature, when it’s good, as opposed to journalism, gives you the freedom to be the characters, to enter into their lives, their psyche and so their experiences become, in a way, yours.

Irene Sabatini

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Irene Sabatini is a Zimbabwean fiction writer who won an Orange award for new writers in 2010.

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