Irene Staunton Quotes

Irene Staunton is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, researcher and writer, who has worked in literature and the arts since the 1970s, both in the UK and Zimbabwe. She is co-founder and publisher of Weaver Press in Harare, having previously co-founded Baobab Books.

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For me, literature is an incredibly important way of telling the truth.

An interview with Irene Staunton (2011)

A good writer has a sense of integrity that is hard to compromise.

An interview with Irene Staunton (2011)

I think if you’re a white Zimbabwean, you have an extra responsibility to give back if you can. My hope as a publisher for more than 30 years is that I have enabled a corpus of work proffering many different stories and points of view.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Irene Staunton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.