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Barbados: Frank Collymore Prize goes to a fantasy novel

Karen Lord, first time entrant in the Frank Collymore Literary Competition admiring the award she received for her winning entry, a novel entitled Redemption In Indigo.

From Gercine Carter, Nation News, Barbados:

A first-time entrant has won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition (Barbados). Karen Lord received the award and a B’dos $10 000 prize for her novel Redemption In Indigo. In the book, Lorde weaves fantasy into an implied history of the world to reflect on the use of power and human choice.

The Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition was established by the Central Bank of Barbados in 1998 to assist in the promotion of literary arts in the island.

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Speak like a subaltern: Elizabeth Bear on writing the other

Writer Elizabeth Bear on creating characters outside your experience:

For one thing, stop thinking about this person you’re writing as The Other. Think of them as human, an individual. Not A Man. Not A Woman. Not A Chinese Person or A Handicapped Person or A Person With Cancer or a Queer Person. A person. Stop trying to make them universal, and make them unique.

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For more, deepad continues the discussion, here:

I distrust universalising statements proclaiming our inherent mutual humanity because they are uni-directional; they do not make everyone more like me, they make everyone more like you.