Author Louise Kennedy, Royal patronage in the arts, beatboxer SK Shlomo
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The Importance of Saying Nothing
Kushla is a primary school teacher in the north of Ireland. She writes about her encounters with sectarianism and how she dealt with it. The novel was written after there was still no functioning government in Belfast. Do you think novels can play a part in healing that by saying the things that weren't said at the time? I don't know, from a personal point of view, I think that maybe, it's so consciously the reason I chose to tell this story and not write another novel."
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