Lionel Shriver: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Lionel Shriver said elsewhere, not written here

A selection of single paragraphs that perfectly capture something I’ve thought or felt, even if it’s shameful or perverse.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

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Mark Bonnar

Being married for 17 years and having two amazing children.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗

David Hasselhoff American actor, singer, and television personality

Singing on the Berlin Wall to a million people in 1989.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Ice-T American rapper and actor

The transition from streetlife to the legitimate world.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 November 2015 source ↗

Johanna Konta British tennis player

Being happy. I think that transcends the results of my matches, the so-called successes or failures. How would you like to be remembered? As someone who dedicated their life to what they were doing at the time. Right now, it’s tennis, but I want to have the same dedication for whatever I do after, whether it be motherhood or another career.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 June 2018 source ↗