# @thebookerprizes on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CI06xGojrVB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24487689-thebookerprizes-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/8be86cc355.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-12-15T17:32:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

## Caption

In this fourth interview for @BBCTwo and shown during the 2020 Booker Prize winner ceremony, @MaazaMengiste discusses what she wanted to achieve with her #2020BookerPrize shortlisted novel, The Shadow King: 

‘I wanted to write about women in war… I wanted to write history from the perspective of those voices that are often ignored, even within their own communities because they’re too poor or they’re not from the right family.’ 

@canongatebooks 

#FinestFiction #TheBookerPrizes #MaazaMengiste #TheShadowKing #bookstagram #instabooks #amreading #igreads #author #fiction

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

## Tags

2020bookerprize, instabooks, theshadowking, amreading, fiction, igreads, bookstagram, maazamengiste, author, thebookerprizes, finestfiction

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