Top author writes to put 'bread on the table'

Although it cannot be said that the Botswana government has done enough to empower the literary arts more and more writers in the country have decided to quit their 'lucrative' jobs to become full-time writers.

One of them is the award-winning Lauri Kubuitsile, who says that being a full-time writer is a demanding job that needs much discipline. Speaking to Showbiz in an interview, the Lecheng-based author said that all is not smooth sailing and to make sure that she succeeds, she works as hard, if not twice as hard as somebody who is employed in an 8am-to-5pm job.

Kubuitsile, who happens to be a Mmegi correspondent, says that as a way of surviving in the dog-eat-dog industry, she is willing to take up anything that can help her put bread on the table.

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