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11 Jan 2023 Conversations with Tyler Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words
“I grew up with parents who allowed me an enormous amount of freedom, and I don’t know if they would’ve done that now, but we were allowed to vanish for the day without adult supervision — me and my siblings and friends.”
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- Katherine Rundell
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- 11 Jan 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How do you think your life has been shaped by having grown up in Zimbabwe? Oh, I think it was profoundly lucky to grow up in Zimbabwe at a time . . . I grew up with parents who allowed me an enormous amount of freedom, and I don’t know if they would’ve done that now, but we were allowed to vanish for the day without adult supervision — me and my siblings and friends. The shining quality of that childhood time, even quite young, say 10 or 11, spent entirely without the presence of adults — the freeing quality that gives your imagination, I imagine has something to do with the fact that I became a children’s writer. Do you think these free, unruly childhoods like yours generate a better class of elites?…
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