Annie Ridout

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Do all creatives have to be entrepreneurial?

Perhaps the two are inextricably linked in today's 'working artist' landscape.

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Annie Ridout
Feb 20, 2024
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When the author Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize, she became an overnight success.

Except, of course, she didn’t, because she’d been grafting for years.

She’d toiled as a writer - while running an all-women theatre company - for decades before winning the prestigious writing prize, aged 60.

(The spiritually-curious may be interested to know t…

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