Should Anne Tyler be allowed to write from the viewpoint of a black man?
People of colour do not simply exist as figments of white authors’ imagination, to be portrayed in whichever way they want.
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Anita Sethi
Anita Sethi is an author and journalist, and a judge of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her book “I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain" won a Books Are My Bag Award, and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing.
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