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Nov 2023
19m 11s

A Word in Your Ear – Disquiet

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Winner of Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, the late Toni Morrison was one of the all-time great American novelists. For the inaugural Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, she was paired with Australian writer Julia Leigh, who was busy writing her second novel, Disquiet. Hear Kerry Fox read an extract from that book in the latest episode of A Word in Your Ear.

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