Irene Sabatini's Blog

I'll be tutoring a course at the Arvon Foundation (in October) with Bernardine Evaristo.

Looking very much forward to it!

More details soon.

I've begun the year with short stories. First, a somewhat menacing and rather creepy tale by Wells Tower called Raw Water which I discovered in 'the best american magazine writing, 2010'; and I'm currently reading Pulse by Julian Barnes.

click on link below to read a new short story I've just written

'Change'

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"Irene Sabatini treads a minefield in her novel - it is pretty difficult to have a calm conversation about Zimbabwe with anyone who cares about it-but what she produces is a book full of understanding, insight and powerful beauty." Alexander Lucie-Smith in The Tablet .

The Boy Next Door has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers!

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Here's an interview I've just done with the UK Newspaper 'The Independent' http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ent...



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Two books I read many years ago which continue to haunt me: Rise the Euphrates by Carol Edgarian and Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje. The former - the story of the 1915 massacre of Armenians, seen through the eyes of a young girl called Seta growing up in Connecticut - begins with the most beautifully eloquent line: “These are the things that were not lost“.





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September 17, 2009

The Boy Next Door made it to the 'Newly Released' write up by Amy Virshup. There's a link to the article on my website

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I think that this line encapsulates the novel very well: 'Their shared status as outsiders brings them together in this novel about love, family and what it means to be African'. This is Lindiwe and Ian's story put in a (lovely) nutshell. Needless to say, I got some friends to deliver a hard copy!




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It's a long time since a novel gave me so much pause for thought- “The Unnamed “by Joshua Ferris is quite possibly my book of the year.

A story that continues to stay with me long after I read it, “Ghosts“, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her short story collection, “The Thing Around Your Neck.”