She shrugs: “I write what I want to write.”įor this unapologetic stance, Shriver has attracted accusations of cultural appropriation and not playing 21st-century style when it comes to “identity”. Slight but muscular, intense but sympathetic, Shriver – hair taken back, dressed in monochrome – seems more brain than body, her quizzical eyebrows keeping guard over eyes which are themselves intensely watchful. “Especially I’m not keen on issuing rules in relation to fiction. “I’m not big on rules,” says Shriver, as we meet in an office space where masks are not required, allowing her fine-boned expressionistic face full rein. The preferred vehicle may be fiction, but her own views are unapologetic. Fierce, insightful, zeitgeisty, challenging – frankly, gutsy – the 64-year-old American-born author best known for her 2005 Orange Prize-winner, We Need to Talk About Kevin, writes about humans without the slightest nod to political correctness. Anyone thinking about “cancelling” the novelist, columnist and broadcaster Lionel Shriver is advised to think again.
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