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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.

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.

By Anita Sethi

Should Anne Tyler be allowed to write from the viewpoint of a black man?

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Reviewed: Mimi by Lucy Ellmann

Under the skin.

By Anita Sethi

Dispatch from Iraq

At the Erbil Literature Festival.

By Anita Sethi

Hay despatch #1

Our festival correspondent listens to Nadine Gordimer, Ed Miliband and Grayson Perry.

By Anita Sethi

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