Speaking at a Guardian Live event, the novelist says publishers would have told her the presidential contender was too extreme
Author Lionel Shriver has said that US presidential hopeful Donald Trump would have been “too far-fetched” to appear in a novel a year ago and that writers would have been criticised for not inventing a “more beguiling demagogue”.
At a Guardian event in London on Tuesday night for her latest novel The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, which is set in a future America where the economy has crashed, Shriver said: “I honestly think that if you put Trump in a novel before last year, it wouldn’t work. It would seem too far-fetched. You would be accused of writing farce; you would be accused of being condescending about the American people.
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