Singapore Writers Festival: Writer Zadie Smith takes an intimate look at life in lockdown

Zadie Smith is one of the record 10 international headliners at the Singapore Writers Festival. PHOTO: DOMINIQUE NABOKOV
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SINGAPORE - One of the ways that British writer Zadie Smith has been dealing with the unbearable present is escaping to the past - by means of the historical novel she is writing.

"It's set in the 1800s and I must say I prefer spending every day in the 1800s to a minute of 2020," she says.

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