<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/084af88a-f439-45dc-94d3-36653aeb3718/A28AD528-134D-4802-8971-4D9D1ED39F54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe"><H1>Interview: Petina Gappah</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Petina Gappah's much-praised first book is a rare chance for British readers to read a Zimbabwean author. But as she tells Richard Lea, she speaks for herself, not her country</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/D11AFFBE-F289-4E72-A017-DBBD0EF71C9B" alt="Pettina Gappah" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe"><P class="caption">'The Voice of Zimbabwe is a radio station. I am not' ... Petina Gappah. Photograph: Sarah Lee</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/interview-petina-gappah-zimbabwe"><P>Born in Zambia in 1971, Gappah grew up in Zimbabwe during the transformation from Ian Smith's white minority rule to Robert Mugabe's increasingly authoritarian regime, before moving first to Austria in 1995, then to Geneva, where she now works for an organisation advising developing countries on the complexities of World Trade Organisation law. Her upbringing was in two languages, moving between entirely segregated schools, where classes were only in Shona, to a Catholic missionary outpost deep in the country, to being one of the first black children to join a previously all-white, English-speaking school. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A28AD528-134D-4802-8971-4D9D1ED39F54/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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