Tuesday, February 14, 2012

News at Eleven: "One has to feel a little sorry

for Mr. Robertson that he feels it necessary to claim the hard-won achievement of others."

Mr. [Robin] Robertson, who is poetry and fiction editor at the publisher Jonathan Cape, said he could not see why Mr. [Ben] Okri was getting so "overwrought" about his comment.

"I only ever edited one book of Ben's, a fine collection of stories called Stars of the New Curfew, which was published in 1988 by Secker & Warburg.

from Telegraph: Ben Okri 'disappointment' at editor he claims re-wrote his work

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