Editor of Doek! Literary Magazine and author of The Eternal Audience of One, Rémy Ngamije, believes good writing cannot salvage a bad story: ‘there is no such thing as a good story that is told with bad writing; if the writing is weak, then the story is weak. No one, after all, appreciates one good ingredient in a bad meal—the same goes for a story.’
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What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
Between the ages of seven and thirteen, I was into children’s literature. Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl—those kinds of writers. I think I enjoyed reading about young boys and girls who had adventurous lives, lives that I was not living in Windhoek, Namibia. Later on, in my teenage years, I was into magical fantasy. Anything with dragons, dwarves, elves, mages, wizards, sorcerers...
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