Anita Sethi | 'Healing comes from keeping open to the world and to other people'

In May 2019, Manchester-born writer and journalist Anita Sethi was on a TransPennine train from Liverpool to Newcastle when she became the victim of a race hate crime, a male passenger attacking her with words that, she wrote later, “hurt the very heart of me”. Sethi bravely reported the racial abuse to the conductor, who took statements from passengers and ensured the police were waiting on the platform to arrest the man on arrival at Newcastle (he was later convicted). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-21 15:24:54 UTC ]

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Author and journalist Mary Ann Sieghart will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction for 2022, with fellow judges including writers Dorothy Koomson, Anita Sethi, Pandora Sykes and Lorraine Candy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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