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'Author and academic Denise Leith, who received the Sydney PEN Award in 2009, has written two non-fiction books, The Politics of Power, an analysis of mining giant Freeport-McMoRan's presence in Indonesia, and Bearing Witness : The Lives of War Correspondents and Photojournalists. However, whenever it comes to truth-telling she has found fiction a greater weapon.' (22)