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‘Our third date was at Buckingham Palace’: Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple
Source: The Guardian · Published
Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer history The literary power couple is a historically seductive concept. Two writers sharing a life, their private and creative worlds entwined, each becoming witness to and critic of the other’s work. Think Simone de Beauvoir and…
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- Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer history The literary power couple is a historically seductive concept.
- Two writers sharing a life, their private and creative worlds entwined, each becoming witness to and critic of the other’s work.
- Think Simone de Beauvoir and…
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