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Read yourself as a stranger
Remember your reading voice, how you sound when you read your own work aloud (assuming that you read aloud as a…
Fred D’Aguiar
Fred D’Aguiar
Fred D’Aguiar writes fiction, poetry, plays and essays and is the author of a dozen books of poetry and fiction. His first novel, The Longest Memory won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was made into a film by Channel 4. His sixth poetry collection, Continental Shelf, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009. He won the Cholmondeley Award in 2019, and currently teaches Creative Writing at UCLA.