Claire-Louise Bennett: A Word Has Its Own History from word family ap Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 13 min 18 sec
✓ Published: 26-Jan-2023

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“A word comes with its own social context, and the words I use have been around much, much longer than me.” Writer Claire-Louise Bennett gives a glimpse into her world of writing. On why it took her so long to get published, the history behind words and the impact of reading while writing.nn“I was writing for a long time before I thought about getting published. And that was very deliberate,” Claire-Louise Bennett explains. “There were kind of formal issues that I had difficulty resolv