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Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie brandishes her writer's passport and asks if it necessary for a writer to travel widely in order to unleash their imagination - or can they explore universal human experience wherever it occurs? Is a writer's internal freedom of the mind enough?

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Mon 24 Nov 2008 23:00

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