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3 unusual facts about Lizzy Dijeh


Lizzy Dijeh

In July 2007 she was one of six writers selected by the Royal Court Theatre to attend the 10th World Interplay Festival in Australia as the UK representative alongside the playwright and UK tutor for that year, Tanika Gupta.

She is a former member of the Royal Court Young Writer's Programme and its Invitation Group.

Dijeh's poetry will next feature in a new and ground-breaking anthology, Out of Bounds, co-edited by Jackie Kay (due in April 2012), which will be a newly charted map of Britain, a poetic A-Z guide of the nation as viewed by its Black and Asian poets.



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