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Monday, June 18, 2007

Writer as Truth-Teller


From the Deccan Herald:

[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who just won the Orange Prize for her fiction] is doing a master’s course in African Studies at Yale, which she says gives her access to material she would never find in Nigeria, and teaches creative writing. Despite the success of [her novel] Half of a Yellow Sun, she reckons she will still need to teach to provide a steady income.

“Creative writing programmes are not very necessary,” she says. “They just exist so that people like us can make a living.”
Posted at: 6/18/2007 08:19:00 AM