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Joanna Kavenna

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Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. She is the author of a work of nonfiction, The Ice Museum and three novels - Inglorious, The Birth of Love and, most recently, a satire called Come to the Edge. In 2008, she won the Orange Prize for New Writing; in 2010 she was named as one of the Telegraph's 20 writers under 40. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian and Observer, the New York Times and the London Review of Books, among other publications.

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We Have Nothing to Lose But Our USP!

(1) Comments | Posted 2 June 2012 | (14:34)

I met a literary agent the other day. She told me that these days when you sell a novel to publishers, there has to be a USP. "A what?" I said. "'Unique Selling Point. You know, narrated by a hermaphrodite, or someone who has been repeatedly raped by their grandfather,...

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Squashing the Toad

(0) Comments | Posted 30 May 2012 | (09:42)

I have no work life balance, in that there is no distinction between my work and my life. The two fields, planes of existence or manifestations of pure/impure id, whatever you want to call them, merge incessantly. This was the same before I had children, though now the mergings are...

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