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An Interview with 2010 Bessie Head Literature Award Winner Jenny Robson
This year’s Bessie Head Literature Awards celebrated children’s literature with a new category for children’s story with Jenny Robson taking the top prize for her book The Right Time. Robson has lived in Maun in Botswana for many years and hopes to stay there for the rest of her life.Robson has won many awards for her children’s books and young adults stories. When asked why this award was so important to her, she said:
For one thing, just entering the competition means that I am back here in Botswana. And that is a wonderful thing for me. I was away for a number of years and felt as though I were in exile. Botswana is the only place where I feel truly ‘me’.
For another, I have such respect for the late Bessie Head – not the icon, but the real flesh-and-blood woman who faced such struggles and pain yet could turn that into meaning and beauty through her writing. I always felt a bond with her. Not that my writing is any way in her league, but she was an inspiration to me.
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