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JOANNA BLYTHMAN Taking the food industry to task

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a Citing influences as diverse

as John Banville, Graham Greene and Chinua Achebe, this Nigerian writer was published as a playwright and a poet by the time she was 21. But her homeland’s 19605 civil war and its legacy have informed her fiction more than anything else with her 2003 debut Purple Hibiscus encompassing family, religion and tolerance in one big sweep.

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