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James Daunt: Is the books industry a place where creativity and diversity truly thrive?

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Claire Wilson of the literary agency, RCW says readers are not well served by mediocre writing put into a celebrity package. Do you think carefully about that? "I would completely agree with that sentiment" I see translated fiction has grown hugely in popularity. The prizes that are given out are not being one uniformly by white, identicate people but actually of becoming extremely diverse. Many of the best-selling authors that we would immediately trip out of our would-be Jimin and Giardit Che, would-be Zaidi Smith or someone Rushdie.

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