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Orwell Prize Shortlist Readings: Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Isabel Waidner

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I Think Fiction Is the Ambitious Thing to Do

Fiction meant a lot to me as a very, very young person. I had sot of access to, access to as i did in germany. Neither of my parents were readers whatsoever. There's not a single book in our household. So for me, the literature was the ambitious thing to do. And nowin fiction, i can be done in other medias. Like em, i guess, very similar to what you've said about you have to break em show the absurdity of this world by whatever em.

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