The Guardian - 18-Nov-2013
lives – "they are our alter egos, because they are seen as free 'Oh, for the life of a gypsy, Oh!'". But then again (in a 1987 polemic, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside), she wrote : "I see writers generally in every country, as a unity, almost like an organism, which has been evolved by society as a means of examining itself." And anyway Lessing was a nomad, a tent-dweller....
The Guardian - 25-Oct-2013
s location that may shock many: Zimbabwe. Not that President Robert Mugabe could be seen handing out glittering garlands. Miss Jacaranda, named after the tree that blossoms lavender at this time of year in Zimbabwe, was the culmination of the annual ZimPride week taking place in a country in which homophobia is rife and anti-gay rhetoric was a cornerstone of Mugabe's recent re-election campaign. Little...
