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    Hoda Barakat: Lost Voices of the Arab Spring

    Saturday 14 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Hoda Barakat: Lost Voices of the Arab Spring
    Ten years on from the uprisings across the Arab-speaking world, writers from countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Libya are offering important reflections on the uncertainty and tragedy that continues to affect people living there. In this event...
     

    Mariana Enríquez: Argentina's Ghoulish Underbelly

    Saturday 14 August 19:15 - 20:15

    Mariana Enríquez: Argentina's Ghoulish Underbelly
    There is a new generation of Latin American women whose stylish, gothic writing is finding enthusiastic readers all over the world. Alongside Chile’s Lina Meruane and Mexico’s Valeria Luiselli, Argentina has produced a cornucopia of talents...
     

    Tara June Winch: The Blood in Your Words

    Sunday 15 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Tara June Winch: The Blood in Your Words
    Tara June Winch’s third novel The Yield begins with an invitation for the reader to take language into their mouths, to savour rolling the letters around and the sound that they produce: ‘I was born on Ngurambang,’ Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi...
     

    Sarah Ardizzone, Marianne Dubuc & Greet Pauwelijn: Translation Adventures

    Age 12+

    Tuesday 17 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Sarah Ardizzone, Marianne Dubuc & Greet Pauwelijn: Translation Adventures
    What happens when a book gets translated? How do words and pictures travel from one language into another and who’s involved? This event is your chance to follow the journey every step of the way, from the very beginning when the idea was born in the...
     

    Maria Stepanova: Memory Palaces

    Wednesday 18 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Maria Stepanova: Memory Palaces
    She has won most of the literary awards in her home country of Russia, and this year Maria Stepanova – along with her translator Sasha Dugdale – was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. One reviewer has even suggested that before long she...
     

    Leah Cowan, Julián Fuks & Abbas Nazari: Surviving Hostile Environments

    Wednesday 18 August 13:15 - 14:15

    Leah Cowan, Julián Fuks & Abbas Nazari: Surviving Hostile Environments
    Detained, fingerprinted, treated with hostility. These are some of the words used recently by EU citizens seeking entry into the UK. How do Britain’s borders reflect the government’s Hostile Environment policy, and how does its border regime link...
     

    Harry Josephine Giles & Ely Percy: The Drama’s in the Dialect

    Wednesday 18 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Harry Josephine Giles & Ely Percy: The Drama’s in the Dialect
    On a far-off space station, Astrid and Darling search for hope as they battle with a pace of progress that threatens to leave them behind. The first full-length novel to be written in Orcadian dialect in over 50 years, Deep Wheel Orcadia is described by...
     

    Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood

    Wednesday 18 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood
    Iman Mersal is a major figure in international literature, an Egyptian poet whose work is characterised by her ardently experimental style. Her latest novel, Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat), was published in 2019 and...
     

    Polly Barton & Eley Williams: Words That Define Us

    Thursday 19 August 10:00 - 11:00

    Polly Barton & Eley Williams: Words That Define Us
    We define words – and then they define us. Meet two authors whose delightful relationship with words and meaning comes to the foreground in their work. Eley Williams won the James Tait Black Prize for her debut short story collection Attrib., a...
     

    Eva Baltasar & Lina Meruane: Body Politics

    Thursday 19 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Eva Baltasar & Lina Meruane: Body Politics
    Rebecca Solnit has argued that ‘every illness is narrative’ and Lina Meruane’s novel Nervous System certainly gives credence to that view. It centres on a woman named Ella who, in struggling to finish her PhD, becomes fixated on the functions and...

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