WRITING WHAT SHE LIKES

The Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland, so you could call it a big deal. For Karen Jennings, who is also busy completing her doctorate in English at the University of Johannesburg, writing is how she makes sense of herself and the world she comes from. Every book I write is an experiment, or an attempt to understand my place in the balance of things,’ she says.

‘As a white South African and African, I’m constantly grappling with my place on the continent