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Leila Aboulela er en sudansk forfatter som bor i Skottland. Hun er forfatter av seks kritikerroste og prisvinnende romaner, blant annet The Translator (1999), Bird Summons (2019) og River Spirit (2023), samt en rekke skuespill og flere novellesamlinger. Abouela var den aller første vinneren av Caine Prize for Fiction, og hun er valgt inn i The Royal Society of Literature.Dette er Leila Aboulelas leseliste:Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (Skyggekongen)Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Trekket mot nord) The Wedding of ZeinNaguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) - Kairo-trilogien (Mellom to slott, Begjærets palass, Sukkerhuset) The Thief and the dogs Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the SunFatin Abbas, Ghost Season Isabella Hammad, The Parisian (Pariseren) Enter Ghost (Gjenferdet inn) I denne podkastserien inviterer Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset forfattere og tenker til å snakke om sine forfatterskap, lesepraksis og sin leseliste fra det afrikanske kontinentet og diaspora. Intervjuer i denne episoden er Åshild Lappegård LahnRedigering og produksjon ved Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset. Musikk av Ibou Cissokho Litteraturhusets satsning på afrikansk litteratur er støttet av NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer, currently living in Scotland. She is the author of six award winning novels, including The Translator (1999), Bird Summons (2019) and River Spirit (2023), as well as a number of plays and short story collections. Aboulela was the first ever winner of the Caine Prize for Fiction, and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.This is Leila Aboulela's reading list:Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow KingTayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North The Wedding of ZeinNaguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) The Thief and the dogs Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the SunFatin Abbas, Ghost Season Isabella Hammad, The Parisian Enter Ghost In this podcast series the House of Literature in Oslo, Norway invites writers and thinkers to talk about their work, what they read and present their reading list from the African continent and diaspora. Host in this episode Åshild Lappegård LahnEditing and production by the House of LiteratureMusic by Ibou CissokhoThe House of Literature's project to promote African literature is supported by NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Jessi Jezewska Stevens, to discuss her book, Ghost Pains. Please consider supporting your local bookshop.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening!For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas to Hanne Ørstavik to Khashayar J Khabushani to Daljit Nagra to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to Nastassja Martin to Ginanne Brownell to Hilary Bradt. All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Historien skrives av seierherrene. Men trenger vi ikke også å høre historien fra den andre siden, fra vanlige mennesker fanget midt i historiens omveltninger, tvunget til å velge side, eller bare forsøke å overleve? Til de som forvises til fotnotene i historiebøkene, eller som aldri nevnes.Dette kan sies å være utgangspunktet i romanene til sudansk-skotske Leila Aboulela og etiopisk-amerikanske Maaza Mengiste, som begge skriver med utgangspunkt i sine hjemlands historiske begivenheter.I Aboulelas nye roman River Spirit er bakteppet den dramatiske tiden i Sudans historie på slutten av 1800-tallet. I løpet av få år gikk landet gjennom flere okkupasjoner og en blodig revolusjon anført av en mann som påsto å være al-Mahdi (islams Messias). Gjennom et flettverk av ulike stemmer som havner på ulike sider i konfliktene, og med den foreldreløse ungjenta Akuany som omdreiningspunkt, tar Aboulela oss med gjennom Sudans nyere historie.En ung, fattig kvinne er også sentral i Maaza Mengistes roman Skyggekongen (til norsk ved Hilde Stubhaug), som forteller historien om da Etiopia i 1935 ble invadert av Mussolinis Italia. Fortalt fra så forskjellige perspektiver som Etiopias keiser Haile Selassie, den italienske soldaten Ettore og tjenestejenta Hirut, gir romanen et mangefasettert bilde av begivenhetene. Mengiste har selv sagt at hun var særlig opptatt av å utforske kvinnenes rolle i motstandskampen.Mengiste er født i Etiopia, og bor i dag i USA. Hun har utforsket Etiopias historie i begge sine kritikerroste romaner, debuten Beneath the Lion's Gaze og Skyggekongen, sistnevnte ble kortlistet til den prestisjetunge Booker-prisen. Mengiste har også gjort seg bemerket som fotograf og essayist.Aboulela er født i Sudan, og bor i dag i Skottland. Hun har utgitt en rekke prisvinnende romaner, novellesamlinger og skuespill. River Spirit er første roman i en planlagt serie som utforsker Skottlands rolle i britenes kolonisering av Sudan.På Litteraturhuset møter Aboulela og Mengiste forfatter og kunstnerisk leder for Radical Books Collective, Bhakti Shringarpure, til samtale om å skrive historiske romaner, og om å løfte fram kvinners og hverdagsmenneskers opplevelser i den store historien. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
History is written by the victorious. But do we not also need to hear the story from the other side, from ordinary people caught in the middle of historical upheavals, forced to pick a side, or just try to survive? To those relegated to the footnotes in the history books, or not mentioned at all.This can be said to be the starting point for the novels of Sudanese-Scottish Leila Aboulela and Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste, both writing about historical events in their home countries.The backdrop in Aboulela's new novel River Spirit is the dramatic time in the Sudan's history in the late 19th century. In the span of just a few years, the country underwent several occupations, as well as a bloody revolution led by a man claiming to be al-Mahdi (the Islamic Messiah). Through a multitude of voices from different sides of the conflicts, and with the young orphaned girl Akuany as a turning point, Aboulela leads us through a central historical time in the Sudan.A young, poor woman is also central in Maaza Mengiste's The Shadow King, telling the story of 1935 Ethiopia invaded by Mussolini's Italy. Told from as different perspectives as Ethiopia's emperor Haile Selassie, the Italian soldier Ettore and the servant girl Hirut, the novel offers a complex picture of the events. Mengiste has emphasized that she was particularly interested in exploring women's role in the resistance movement.Mengiste was born in Ethiopia, and is currently living in the United States. She has explored Ethiopia's recent history in both her critically acclaimed novels Beneath the Lion's Gaze and The Shadow King, with the latter shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. Mengiste has also made her mark as a photographer and an essayist.Aboulela was born in the Sudan, today she lives in Scottland. She has published a number of award winning novels, short story collections and plays. River Spirit is the first novel in a planned series exploring Scotland's role in the British colonization of the Sudan.At the House of Literature, Aboulela and Mengiste meet writer and creative director of the Radical Books Collective, Bhakti Shringarpure, for a conversation about writing historical fiction, and about foregrounding the stories of women and ordinary people within big historical events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Hilary Bradt to discuss Taking the Risk: My Adventures in Travel & Publishing. Please consider supporting your local bookshop.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas to Hanne Ørstavik to Khashayar J Khabushani to Daljit Nagra to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to Nastassja Martin to Ginanne Brownell. All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Året er 1949, og staten Israel er i sin spede begynnelse. Langt sør i landet, i Negev-ørkenen, har israelske sikkerhetsstyrker satt opp leir med oppdrag å «renske ut» de araberne som måtte være igjen i området etter krigen året før. De kommer over en beduin-familie, deriblant en tenåringsjente som de voldtar, dreper og begraver i ørkenen.I nåtidens Ramallah kommer en ung kvinne over denne hendelsen gjennom en liten notis i avisen. Den fanger oppmerksomheten hennes fordi hendelsen fant sted på dagen 25 år før hun ble født. Kvinnen blir besatt av å finne ut hva som egentlig skjedde der i ørkenen, og legger ut på en svært risikabel reise for å komme til bunns i historien.Adania Shibli er en kritikerrost palestinsk forfatter og har doktorgrad i medie- og kulturstudier. Hittil har hun utgitt tre romaner på arabisk. En liten detalj er den første som er oversatt til norsk (ved Oda Winsnes). Den er liten og tynn, men rommer langt mer enn hva det knappe sidetallet antyder. Her utforsker hun temaer som tilhørighet og tap, og hun skildrer absurditeten i hverdagen under en normalisert okkupasjon. Shiblis språk er presist og økonomisk, fortellingen stramt komponert. De mange utelatelsene i fortellingen skaper en dirrende uro og uhygge som bare vokser for hver side.Romanen var kortlistet til den internasjonale Bookerprisen i 2021, og vant i 2023 Tysklands prestisjetunge LiBeraturpreis. De valgte imidlertid å utsette prisutdelingen på ubestemt tid etter Hamas' terrorangrep 7. oktober og Israels påfølgende angrep på Gaza, til sterk kritikk fra internasjonalt hold.På Litteraturhuset møter Shibli forfatterkollega Maaza Mengiste til en samtale om språk, om fortiden, om grenser og om alle de små detaljene som utgjør virkeligheten. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The year is 1949, and the state of Israel is in its infancy. In the Negev desert, bordering Egypt, Israeli armed forces have set up camp with the mission to “cleanse it of any remaining Arabs” after the war the preceding year. They happen upon a Beduin family, a teenage girl among them, whom the soldiers rape, kill and bury in the desert.In present-day Ramallah, a young woman discovers these events through a small newspaper story. It catches her attention because the events took place exactly 25 years before the day she was born. The woman becomes compelled to find out what actually happened in that desert, and embarks upon a highly dangerous journey to come to the bottom of the story.Adania Shibli is a critically acclaimed Palestinian writer, and holds a PhD in media and cultural studies. She has published three novels in Arabic, and Minor Detail is the first to be translated into Norwegian. While slim in size, the novel contains far more than the modest number of pages would suggest. Shibli explores themes such as belonging and loss, depicting the everyday absurdities under a normalized occupation. Shibli's language is precise and sparse, the story concise. The many gaps in the story creates a tension, quivering beneath the surface and increasing by each page.The novel was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021, and in 2023, it won the prestigious German LiBeraturpreis. However, they chose to postpone the award ceremony indefinitely after Hamas's terror attack on October 7th and Israel's following war on Gaza, a decision met with extensive criticism internationally.At the House of Literature, Shibli will meet writer colleague Maaza Mengiste for a conversation about language, the past, borders and all the minor details that make up our reality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Ginanne Brownell, to discuss her book, GHETTO CLASSICS: How a youth orchestra changed a Nairobi slum Please consider supporting your local bookshop.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas to Hanne Ørstavik to Khashayar J Khabushani to Daljit Nagra to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to Nastassja Martin. All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Nastassja Martin to discuss her book, IN THE EYE OF THE WILD. Please consider supporting your local bookshop.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas to Hanne Ørstavik to Khashayar J Khabushani to Daljit Nagra to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀. All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to discuss her new book, A Spell of Good Things. Please consider supporting your local bookshop.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas to Hanne Ørstavik to Khashayar J Khabushani to Daljit Nagra. All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Daljit Nagra to discuss his latest collection of poetry, Indiom.Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice.Thank you for listening!For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas to Hanne Ørstavik to Khashayar J Khabushani.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Khashayar J Khabushani to discuss his debut, I Will Greet the Sun Again.Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Cox & Kings — Arranging captivating travel experiences for over 260 years.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening!For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas to Hanne Ørstavik.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Maaza Mengiste er forfatter og fotograf, og underviser i kreativ skriving ved Wesleyan University. Debutromanen hennes fra 2010, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, skildrer den blodige revolusjonen i Etiopia på 1970-tallet, og ble kåret til en av de beste afrikanske samtidsromanene av avisa the Guardian. Hennes seneste roman, The Shadow King, tar for seg 1930-tallets italo-etiopitske krig, og ble kortlistet til den prestisjefylte Booker-prisen i 2020.Dette er Maaza Mengistes leseliste:Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister KilljoyMaya Binyam, HangmanMihret Sibhat, The History of a Difficult ChildTsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Nervøse tilstander, overs. Merete Alfsen, 2023)I denne podkastserien inviterer Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset forfattere og tenker til å snakke om sine forfatterskap, lesepraksis og sin leseliste fra det afrikanske kontinentet og diaspora. Intervjuer i denne episoden er Åshild Lappegård LahnRedigering og produksjon ved Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset. Musikk av Ibou Cissokho Litteraturhusets satsning på afrikansk litteratur er støttet av NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Maaza Mengiste is a writer, photographer and teacher of creative fiction at Wesleyan University. Her 2010 debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, depicts the bloody revolution in 1970s Ethiopia, and was named one of the 10 Best Contemporary African Books by the Guardian. Her second novel The Shadow King, portraying the Italo-Ethiopian war of the 1930s, was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker prize in 2020.This is Maaza Mengiste's reading list:Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister KilljoyMaya Binyam, HangmanMihret Sibhat, The History of a Difficult ChildTsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous ConditionsIn this podcastseries the House of Literature in Oslo, Norway invites writers and thinkers to talk about their work, what they read and present their readinglist from the African continent and diaspora. Host in this episode Åshild Lappegård LahnEditing and production by the House of LiteratureMusic by Ibou CissokhoThe House of Literature's project to promote African literature is supported by NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Hanne Ørstavik to discuss her book, Ti Amo. It is her 16th novel. Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast: Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward to Damian Le Bas.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Damian Le Bas to discuss his debut, The Stopping Places. Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to Sophie Ward. All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
Through more than 30 years, Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga has made her mark as a writer and director. With her trilogy of novels following Tambu, she portrays a period of upheaval for her home country, from life under the colonial regime of Rhodesia to the struggle for freedom and the disillusioned everyday life after independence.Her debut novel Nervous Conditions was not only the first novel in English published by a Black woman in Zimbabwe, it has become a modern classic, and in 2018, it figured on BBC's “100 books that changed the world”. That same year, the third book in the trilogy, This Mournable Body, was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker prize.But it was not a given that Dangarembga would end up in this position, and at one point, it seemed she would not be able to publish her first book at all. In her recent essay collection Black and Female, Dangarembga connects the personal and the political in her recount of how she has been forced into a constant uphill battle to be heard, as a Black person and as a woman.At the House of Literature, Dangarembga will meet Ethiopian Maaza Mengiste in conversation. Mengiste is the author of several critically acclaimed novels portraying the history of Ethiopia, and she has named Dangarembga as one of her literary inspirations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Zimbabwiske Tsitsi Dangarembga har gjennom mer enn 30 år markert seg som en betydningsfull forfatter. I fjor ble hun innlemmet i det prestisjefylte Royal Society of Literature, og hun ble nylig tildelt Den Norske Forfatterforenings ytringsfrihetspris.Med trilogien om Tambu har hun skildret en brytningstid i hjemlandet, fra livet under Rhodesias koloniregime til frihetskamp og den desillusjonerte hverdagen etter uavhengigheten. Debutboka Nervous Conditions (nylig oversatt til norsk som Nervøse tilstander av Merete Alfsen) var ikke bare den første romanen utgitt på engelsk av en svart kvinne i Zimbabwe, den har blitt en moderne klassiker, og i 2018 var den med på BBCs kåring av «100 historier som formet verden». Samme år ble tredje bok i serien nominert til den prestisjetunge Booker-prisen.Men det var ikke gitt at Dangarembga skulle få en slik posisjon, og det var nære på at hun ikke fikk gitt ut sin første bok i det hele tatt. I essay-boka Svart og kvinne (til norsk ved Gøril Eldøen) vever Dangarembga sammen det personlige og det politiske når hun forteller om hvordan hun konstant har arbeidet i motbakke for å kunne høres, som svart og som kvinne.På Litteraturhuset møter Dangarembga etiopiske Maaza Mengiste til samtale. Mengiste står bak flere kritikerroste romaner om Etiopias historie, og har løftet fram Dangarembga som en av sine store litterære inspirasjonskilder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
En ung jente fra en fattig familie som må kjempe for å ta den utdanningen hun ønsker, som først og fremst er forbeholdt sønnene i familien. En vakker og verdensvant venninne som får henne ut av skallet. En regions historie som skildres gjennom en ungjentes oppvekst.Det kunne vært beskrivelsen av Elena Ferrantes Napoli-kvartett, men dette er utgangspunktet for zimbabwiske Tsitsi Dangarembgas trilogi, som ble påbegynt flere tiår tidligere. Her følger vi ungjenta Tambudzai fra oppveksten i det koloniserte Rhodesia, gjennom frigjøringskrigen og til hun forsøker å skape seg et liv i et selvstendig, men desillusjonert, Zimbabwe. Nå utgis første bok i serien på norsk, i Merete Alfsens oversettelse.Hvordan leses Dangarembgas bøker i dag? Og hvorfor er mange av de mest sentrale forfatterne fra det afrikanske kontinentet fremdeles ukjente for så mange europeiske lesere?Dangarembga har vært en betydningsfull forfatterstemme gjennom mer enn 30 år, helt fra hun med debutboka Nervous Conditions ble den første svarte kvinnen i Zimbabwe til å utgi en roman på engelsk. I 2021 ble hun den åttende forfatteren som leverte sitt bidrag til kunstprosjektet Framtidsbiblioteket, og i vår ble hun tildelt Den Norske Forfatterforenings ytringsfrihetspris.Bøkene hennes er blitt moderne klassikere, og en rekke andre forfattere har blitt inspirert av hennes nyanserte barne- og ungdomsportrett, av hvordan hun skriver om jenter og kvinners kamp for like rettigheter og hvordan hun forteller Zimbabwes nyere historie i romans form.En av dem som har latt seg inspirere av Dangarembga, er den etiopiske forfatteren Maaza Mengiste. Hun har selv benyttet romanformen for å skrive fram et lands historie med bøkene Beneath the Lion's Gaze og The Shadow King.Marjam Idriss er forfatter av romanen Jannikeevangeliet, litteraturkritiker og oversetter av navn som Audre Lorde og Amanda Gorman. I vår har hun dykket ned i Dangarembgas forfatterskap.Tonje Vold er professor ved institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier ved UiO. Hun skrev hovedoppgave om Tsitsi Dangarembga, og har siden jobbet med temaer som postkolonial litteratur og litteratur fra det sørlige Afrika.Samtalen ledes av forfatter og tidligere programsjef ved Litteraturhuset, Andreas Liebe Delsett. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Sophie Ward to discuss her novels, The Schoolhouse, and her debut Love and Other Thought Experiments, long listed for the Booker. Before that, a work of non-fiction, A Marriage Proposal: The Importance of Equal Marriage and What it Means for All of Us. Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o to discuss his life's works including Wrestling with the Devil, which reflects on his imprisonment back in 1978. Also, his first novel Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ, in English, Devil on the Cross, which he wrote in prison. And Weep Not, Child; The River Between; A Grain of Wheat. More recently his memoirs, Birth of a Dream Weaver and In the House of the Interpreter, and a novel in verse, The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi.Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Cox & Kings — Arranging captivating travel experiences for over 260 years.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice.Thank you for listening!For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders to Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Doreen Cunningham.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
In this episode, Ethiopian-American author Maaza Mengiste and Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio sit down with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck. The conversation centers on the colonial history of Italy in Ethiopia. Mengiste talks about the often overlooked role of women in Ethiopia's fight against Italian occupation during World War II, and Italian artist Fiorio talks about her work “My fascist Grandpa.” Both bring their perspectives to contextualize photography and its manifold meaning and ability to hold and tell truths. © Vittoria Trovato / Laura Fiorio © Nina Subin / Maaza Mengiste
What comes to mind when you imagine a library? Rows of books, probably. But across the continent, libraries are transforming into places that serve communities in all sorts of other ways. This week we hear from two very different libraries about how they're doing just that: Bojana Grujic of the Novi Sad City Library in Serbia and Myrto Tsilimpounidi from the Feminist Library at the Feminist Autonomous Centre in Athens. We're also talking about the fallout from Macron's trip to China, the international fight against Hungary's homophobic law, and the hallucinogenic adventures of early Europeans. Bojana and Myrto's libraries are taking part in the European Cultural Foundation's Europe Challenge. The hunt for new participants begins soon; keep an eye on the ECF's website for updates, or subscribe to their newsletter. This week's Isolation Inspiration: Birdsbesafe cat collars, available via the Royal Belgian League for the Protection of Birds, and 'The Shadow King' by Maaza Mengiste. Bonus: Katy's amazing Notion template. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review or giving us five stars on Spotify. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/libraries-the-safest-spaces-we-have 00:22 No Easter eggs for Dominic 02:43 Messy / Bad Week: Macron and von der Leyen's trip to China 14:47 Good Week: The fight against Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law 23:06 Interview: Bojana Grujic and Myrto Tsilimpounidi on the reinvention of Europe's libraries 35:51 Isolation Inspiration: Birdsbesafe cat collars and 'The Shadow King' by Maaza Mengiste 40:59 Happy Ending: Early Europeans' psychedelic dabbling Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina Twitter | Instagram | hello@europeanspodcast.com
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer Doreen Cunningham to discuss her debut, SOUNDINGS: Journeys in the company of whales. From the lagoons of Mexico to Arctic glaciers, Doreen followed the route of the gray whale on one of the longest mammalian migrations — with Max, her little boy, by her side. Her book mixes up memoir with nature, climate and science writing.Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice.Thank you for listening!For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders and Osman Yousefzada to Kylie Moore-Gilbert.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
In 1935, after a brutal campaign, Italy claimed Ethiopia as its own. How do Ethiopians remember those dark days? And Italians? Maaza Mengiste, whose acclaimed novel The Shadow King is set during the invasion, discusses the legacy of brutality and the multifaceted art of telling forgotten stories.Guest: Maaza MengisteVisit theitalianfiles.com for full transcript and episode notes.
Ungjenta Hirut får tjeneste hos et rikt par, men havner snart i sentrum for parets mange krangler, sjalusi og sorg over tapet av et barn. Vi befinner oss i Etiopia på 1930-tallet. Bedre blir det ikke når Italia med Mussolini i spissen invaderer landet, og Hiruts herre må lede en motstandshær. Kona nekter å sitte hjemme og vente på mannen, og danner sin egen styrke, av kvinner. I hovedstaden forsøker keiser Selassie å drukne ute den prekære virkeligheten med lyden av opera.I romanen The Shadow King har forfatter Maaza Mengiste tatt utgangspunkt i et sentralt kapittel i etiopisk historie, og sin egen familiehistorie. Hun tar oss med inn i fortellingene til tjenestejenta Hirut og husfruen hennes, men også til hærføreren Kidane, den italienske soldaten Ettore og keiser Haile Selassie. Resultatet er en flerstemt roman som utfyller bildet om Etiopias motstandskrig, om enkeltmenneskenes liv i den store historien.Mengiste ble født i Etiopia, men familien hennes forlot landet på slutten av 70-tallet, under den etiopiske revolusjonen, som er tema i debutromanen Beneath the Lion's Gaze. Både debuten og The Shadow King har begeistret kritikere, og har blitt oversatt til en rekke språk.Sofi Oksanen har, i likhet med Mengiste, skrevet fiksjon ut fra historiske hendelser, blant annet fra et Sovjet-okkupert Øst-Europa under andre verdenskrig i romanene Stalins kyr og Utrenskning. Også her står kvinnenes erfaringer sentralt.Nå er det igjen krig, både i Etiopia og i Ukraina. Sofi Oksanen møter Maaza Mengiste til en samtale om litteraturens rolle i å hjelpe oss med å forstå historien og vår egen samtid.Samtalen er på engelsk.Litteraturhusets satsning på afrikansk litteratur er støttet av NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I'm joined by the writer and scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert to discuss her book, THE UNCAGED SKY: My 804 days in an Iranian prison. Kylie was arrested at Tehran Airport in September 2018 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and convicted of espionage. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but released early in a three-nation prisoner swap.Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders and Osman Yousefzada.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
The young girl Hirut starts working for a wealthy couple, but is soon brought into their many quarrels, their jealousy and grief over the loss of a child. This is Ethiopia in the 1930s. Things go from bad to worse when Italy, led by Mussolini, invades the country, and Hirut's master is tasked with organizing an opposition army. His wife refuses to wait at home for him, and creates her own force, made up by women. In the capital, emperor Selassie attempts to shut out the dire situation through the sound of opera.In her novel The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste takes as her starting point a central chapter in the history of Ethiopia , as well as her own family history. She invites us into the realities of the servant Hirut and her madame, but also that of the army leader Kidane, the Italian soldier Ettore and the emperor Haile Selassie. The result is a polyphonic novel that broadens our perceptions of the Ethiopian-Italian war and the lives of human beings in this great history.Mengiste was born in Ethiopia, but her family left the country in the late 70s, during the Ethiopian revolution, which is central in her debut novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze. Both her debut and The Shadow King has received great critical acclaim, and been translated into numerous languages.Sofi Oksanen has, like Mengiste, created fiction from historical events, such as a Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe during the second world war in her novels Purge and Stalin's Cows. Here, too, the experiences of women are central to the stories.Now, both Ethiopia and Ukraine are at war again. Sofi Oksanen will join Maaza Mengiste for a conversation about the role of literature in helping us understand history and the times we live in.The House of Literature's project to promote African literature is supported by NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I speak with the writer Osman Yousefzada to discuss his debut The Go-Between: A portrait of growing up between different worlds. It's a coming-of-age memoir, reflecting on his early life in Birmingham, a childhood within the embrace of an ultra-conservative community of immigrants from Pakistani Pashtun.Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi to Frances Stonor Saunders.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I speak with the writer Frances Stonor Saunders to discuss her book The Suitcase, Six Attempts to Cross a Border.Please consider supporting your local bookshop.The Wandering Book Collector would like to thank the supporter of this podcast:Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wildernesses and cultures.If you're enjoying the podcast, I'd love you to leave a rating or a review. To learn about future editions, please subscribe or hit “follow” on your podcast app of choice. Thank you for listening! For more on the podcast, book recs, what books to pack for where's next, and who's up next, I'm across socials @michellejchan. I'd love to hear from you.And if you've missed any, do catch up. From Janine di Giovanni to Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Carla Power to Maaza Mengiste to Kapka Kassabova to Sara Wheeler to Brigid Delaney to Horatio Clare to Rebecca Mead to Preti Taneja to Kathryn D. Sullivan to Emmanuel Jal to Jennifer Steil to Winnie M Li to Mona Arshi to Tim Mackintosh-Smith to Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler to Ariana Neumann to Anthony Sattin to Roger Robinson to Justin Marozzi.All credit for sound effects goes to the artists and founders of Freesound.org and Zapsplat.com. All credit for music goes to the artists and founders of Soundstripe.com
Maaza Mengiste är Sverigeaktuell med "Skuggkungen" som kastar ljus på de kvinnliga soldater som skrivits ut ur den afrikanska och europeiska historien. Den är en hjärtskärande, oförglömlig skildring av vad det innebär att vara kvinna i krig. Romanen gavs ut i svensk översättning av Örjan Sjögren på Bokförlaget Tranan hösten 2022. Maaza Mengistes föddes i Addis Abeba, Etiopien, men bor numera i New York. Hon skriver regelbundet i bland annat New Yorker, Granta och New York Times. "Skuggkungen" är hennes andra roman efter debuten "Under lejonets blick" från 2010. "Skuggkungen" utspelar sig i Etiopien 1935. Med hotet om Mussolinis styrkors antågande hängande över dalen försöker Hirut, som nyligen förlorat sina föräldrar, anpassa sig till livet som barnflicka hos Kidane, som är officer i kejsar Haile Selassies armé. Han är i full färd med att mobilisera sina starkaste män inför italienarnas invasion. Men när de dåligt utrustade och illa tränade etiopiska styrkorna förlorar slag efter slag och kejsaren till slut går i exil, så är det Hirut som har en plan för hur folket ska hålla hoppet vid liv. Hon klär ut en jordbruksarbetare till Selassie för att hålla kampen vid liv, och blir sedan själv den falske kejsarens vakt, vilket inspirerar andra kvinnor att ansluta till kampen mot fascismen. "Skuggkungen" är en extraordinärt berättad episk roman baserad på årtal av research som följer den inspirerande Hirut genom fångenskap och tortyr mot den stora upprättelsen. Från 16 november 2022 Jingel: Lucas Brar
Édouard Louis 2022: Foredrag ved Maaza Mengiste med introduksjon av Édouard Louis. Hvilket ansvar har forfatteren for å dokumentere og granske volden som omgir oss? I Édouard Louis' bok Voldens historie utforsker han volden fra synspunktet til et offer for voldtekt og drapsforsøk, men også volden som gjerningsmannen har møtt fra storsamfunnet. I romanene Beneath the Lion's Gaze og The Shadow King, om henholdvis den blodige etiopiske revolusjonen og Italias invasjon av Etiopia, har forfatter Maaza Mengiste selv utforsket ulike former for vold – både på individ- og på samfunnsnivå.I dette personlige foredraget vil Mengiste snakke om sitt forhold til Louis' roman og dele sine refleksjoner om forfatterens rolle i en voldelig verden.Foredraget er på engelsk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Édouard Louis 2022: A lecture by Maaza Mengiste, introduction by Édouard Louis. What is the responsibility of the writer in documenting and unpicking the violence around us? In Édouard Louis's book The History of Violence, he explores violence from the point of view of the victim of rape and attempted murder, but also the violence that the perpetrator has experienced from society. In the novels Beneath the Lion's Gaze and The Shadow King, about the bloody Ethiopian revolution and Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, Maaza Mengiste has herself explored forms of violence – both on an individual level and on the level of society.In this personal lecture, Mengiste will talk about her relationship to Louis's novel and give us her own reflections on the writer's place in a violent world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dionne Irving joins Eric Newman to talk about her debut story collection, The Islands. Moving across the United States, Canada, Jamaica, England, and France, the collection explores the female characters' experience of diasporic dislocation, that feeling of never quite fitting into the rhythms of either their adopted culture or their culture of origin. Dionne's stories reveal origin — that foundational and orienting sense of where one is “from” — as an eternally unsettled question for her female protagonists, troubling the ways in which they find or make a home for themselves among people and places that never feel entirely theirs. Also, Peter Brooks, author of Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative, returns to recommend The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste as well as The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier.
Dionne Irving joins Eric Newman to talk about her debut story collection, The Islands. Moving across the United States, Canada, Jamaica, England, and France, the collection explores the female characters' experience of diasporic dislocation, that feeling of never quite fitting into the rhythms of either their adopted culture or their culture of origin. Dionne's stories reveal origin — that foundational and orienting sense of where one is “from” — as an eternally unsettled question for her female protagonists, troubling the ways in which they find or make a home for themselves among people and places that never feel entirely theirs. Also, Peter Brooks, author of Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative, returns to recommend The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste as well as The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier.
Aethelflaed and Bertha are two of the figures discussed in the new history of women in the Middle Ages written by Janina Ramirez. Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh has taken the heroine who fights Tancredi the crusading knight and reframed the story set to the music composed by Monteverdi's Il Combattimento. Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist who has tracked the way a Viking ‘Carnelian' bead travelled to England from 8th-century Baghdad, with all that it tells us about women and power. They join Shahidha Bari to discuss ideas about women as warriors and power brokers. Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez is published July 21st 2022 Shobana Jeyasingh's new dance work Clorinda Agonistes premieres on July 13th and 14th at Grange Park, Hampshire and then can be seen at Sadlers Wells Sept 9th and 10th, Snape Maltings October 8th, the Lowry Oct 18th and 19th, Oxford Playhouse 15th and 16th November. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman is out now. Producer in Salford: Cecile Wright You might be interested in another discussion about women fighting hearing from Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g4bz available on the Free Thinking programme website and to download as an Arts & Ideas podcast our our discussion about Vikings https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015582 and we have a whole collection called Women in the World https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084ttwp
In questa nuova puntata entriamo virtualmente nella libreria Griot di Roma, specializzata in scrittori africani, arabi e della diaspora, un vero tesoro da scoprire. La protagonista della rubrica Culture Club è invece Silvia Pellizzari, autrice per Emons di “Tiresia, podcast letterario dedicato a scrittrici e scrittori legati alle tematiche LGBT. Infine, un audio speciale per gli ascoltatori di Copertina dallo scrittore americano David Leavitt.Libri consigliati in questo episodio:IL COTTAGE DEGLI UCCELLI di Eva Meijer, nottetempoLE PERFEZIONI di Vincenzo Latronico, BompianiRAGAZZA SENZA PREFAZIONE di Luca Tosi, TerrarossaSEGU 1. LE MURAGLIE DI TERRA + SEGU 2. LA TERRA IN BRICIOLE di Maryse Condé, Edizioni lavoroIL RITORNO di Hisham Matar, EinaudiIL RE OMBRA di Maaza Mengiste, EinaudiCAMERE SEPARATE di Pier Vittorio Tondelli, BompianiBYE BYE VITAMINE di Rachel Chong, NN Editore
Incontro tra la scrittrice etiope-americana Maaza Mengiste e Carlo Lucarelli al Festivaletteratura di Mantova 2021. L'interprete dell'incontro è Marina Astrologo.
There is growing momentum in international education around advancing social justice, and these issues are rightly at the forefront of the important discussions happening across the field. Longtime NAFSA member LaNitra Berger, PhD, edited the book on it: Social Justice and International Education.In this episode of the IE podcast, Berger discusses how advancing social justice in international education became a passion of hers;changes she's seen in the field over the course of her career;the role international students play in the dialogue around racism; andbig and small ways to advance social justice in international education—from daily work on campuses to an overarching national strategy.Then, Berger answers questions from attendees at NAFSA's recent Summit for Diversity and Internationalization, and she shares more with us about the intersection of art history and international education.NAFSA Resources:Social Justice and International Education“International Students are Critical to Fighting Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Systemic Racism” blog post“Centering Social Justice: NAFSA Resources to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”Additional Resources:Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of ColorIrma Stern book launch video“Art, Race and the Future: A Conversation with LaNitra Berger,” Parenting for the Future podcast A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste
Writer and photographer Maaza Mengiste joined host Bhakti Shringarpure in the studio to discuss the expanding boundaries of African literature today. While the days of African literary tourism are behind us, there still remain significant challenges to overcome in Western publishing. Recent focus on literature from East Africa illustrates that the region's unique literary output often grapples with difficult histories of war and violence. Though Mengiste resides in the US, she continues to produce writing about her home country, Ethiopia, and offered carefully considered answers about what may constitute Ethiopian literature today. Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-American writer whose novels include Beneath the Lion's Gaze and The Shadow King, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. She is the editor of Addis Ababa Noir and the recipient of several prestigious fellowships including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship, a Cullman Center for Scholars and a Fulbright Fellowship. She has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Granta, theGuardian, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC. Mengiste has served on the Advisory Board for Warscapes magazine and we appreciate her support for us over the years. Bhakti Shringarpure is the Creative Director of the Radical Books Collective and the host for their BookRising podcast.
Prieteni ne-am întors cu cea mai mare dezbatere posibilă despre ciorba de burtă. Ne situăm pe poziții adverse față de această minune culinară. Altfel, ne unește uimirea în fața bucuriei de a nu lua un Nobel, discutăm soarta viitorului fost antrenor al Naționalei și aducem cuvinte de mimă. Plus o recenzie la ”Bravo, ai stil!”. Mai jos sunt capitolele: Podcastul nostru se deschide cu îndelungi saluturi 11:10 Urmează cele mai bune cuvinte de mimă, dar și o recenzie la Bravo, ai stil! 23:02 Cătălin are o plăcere vinovată, dar vă îndeamnă și la o faptă bună. Așadar, scoateți un borcan cu iaurt de fructe 40:55 Îngrijorările sănătoase aduc o discuție despre cum am ajuns să ne bucurăm că nu avem un Nobel 1:00:08 Neașteptările vin și de la noi și de la ei. 1:12:15 Spuma filelor găsește următoarele cărți: Între două lumi, de Suleika Jaouad, Dacopatia și alte rătăciri românești, de Dan Alexe, Koba cel cumplit, de Martin Amis și Umbra Regelui, de Maaza Mengiste 1:36:44 Mireeeeeel Rădooooi, Mireeeeeel Rădooooi! 1:48:23 Cea mai mare dezbatere despre ciorba de burtă. Oroare! Radu nu mănâncă!
Felicitas Hoppes Roman „Die Nibelungen“ ist für den „Deutschen Buchpreis“ nominiert. Darin sucht sie einen Goldschatz und feiert die Wormser Festspiele. Die ZEIT-Redakteurin Khuê Pham ist in der Sendung zu Gast. In ihrem Debütroman „Wo auch immer ihr seid“ erzählt sie eine vietnamesische Familiengeschichte. Maaza Mengiste stammt aus Äthiopien und hat mit „Der Schattenkönig“ einen fesselnden Roman über den Abessinienkrieg von 1935/36 geschrieben. Die flämische Autorin Charlotte Van den Broeck empfiehlt „Das blinde Licht“ von Benjamín Labatut. Literarische Essays randvoll mit naturwissenschaftlicher Sachkenntnis. In „Das Ereignis“ erzählt die für ihre autobiographischen Bücher bekannte Französin Annie Ernaux von einer Abtreibung und ihren Folgen. Zum Schluss träumt Kurt Tucholsky in „Schöner Herbst“ vom Strand, den uns Bettina Baltschev dann in ihrem Strand-Buch „Am Rande der Glückseligkeit“ in all seinen Facetten vorstellt. Felicitas Hoppe – Die Nibelungen. Ein deutscher Stummfilm Fischer Verlag, 256 Seiten, 22 Euro ISBN: 978-3-10-032458-0 Rezension von Angela Gutzeit Khuê Pham – Wo auch immer ihr seid btb Verlag, 304 Seiten, 22 Euro ISBN: 978-3-442-75802-9 Lesung und Gespräch mit der Autorin Maaza Mengiste – Der Schattenkönig Aus dem Englischen von Brigitte Jakobeit und Patricia Klobusiczky dtv, 576 Seiten, 25 Euro ISBN: 978-3-423-28292-5 Rezension von Pascal Fischer Benjamin Labatut – Das blinde Licht. Irrfahrten der Wissenschaft Aus dem Spanischen von Thomas Brovot Suhrkamp Verlag, 187 Seiten, 22 Euro ISBN: 978-3-518-42922-8 Lesetipp von der Autorin Charlotte Van den Broeck Annie Ernaux – Das Ereignis Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Sonja Finck Suhrkamp Verlag, 104 Seiten,18 Euro ISBN: 978-3-518-22525-7 Rezension von Judith Reinbold Kurt Tucholsky – Schöner Herbst aus: Gedichte in einem Band Insel Verlag 2006, 1034 Seiten, 22 Euro ISBN: 978-3-458-17300-7 gelesen von Bert Linnemann Bettina Baltschev - Am Rande der Glückseligkeit. Über den Strand Berenberg Verlag, 280 Seiten, 25 Euro ISBN: 978-3-946334-85-9 Rezension von Julia Schröder Musik: Olaf Schönborn' s Q4: Radio Jazz JAZZ'n'ARTS
Mit „Der Schattenkönig“ gelingt Maaza Mengiste ein opulentes, berührendes Werk, das dem zu Unrecht verdrängten Krieg zwischen Italien und Äthiopien 1935-1936 und den äthiopischen Kämpferinnen zur Erinnerung verhilft. Mengiste schildert authentisch und bedrückend, wie auf allen Seiten Menschen zu Opfern und Tätern werden; Männer wie Frauen. Rezension von Pascal Fischer. Aus dem Englischen von Brigitte Jakobeit und Patricia Klobusiczky dtv, 576 Seiten, 25 Euro ISBN: 978-3-423-28292-5
We return to the design bindings made for the shortlisted books of the Booker Prize in 2020. This time we talk to Lori Sauer about her work with the book Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books, 2020). The structure is a version of the crossed structure binding modified by Lori Sauer. Binding covered with stone veneer. In the video, we discuss some technical aspects of this binding, as well as Lori's approach to working with Booker Prize bindings and book structures in general. To watch this episode on our YouTube channel, please use the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFWCj24PikI Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:34 - Lori Sauer's method in working with Booker Prize bindings 02:43 - Introducing Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books, 2020) 05:02 - What was Lori's process in selecting the theme for the binding 06:46 - Modified version of the crossed structure binding 07:52 - Using stone veneer 10:39 - The darkness in the book and stone of the cover 11:20 - Explaining the crossed structure binding 11:47 - Eel skin for the spine 12:37 - Is it hard to work with eel skin? 13:09 - Gold speckles on the cover 14:29 - Iterative design process 16:30 - Why book structures are so important to Lori (even if they are hidden) 18:03 - The most challenging Booker Prize binding Lori had to work on 19:41 - Peculiarities of Lori's style 21:39 - Who influenced Lori's style? 22:55 - Lori's background in art and architecture 25:18 - What is design binding? 27:09 - Not using assistants, Covid, and being not a well-disciplined creator 27:53 - Lori's studio 29:01 - Feedback from Maaza Mengiste (and other authors)
Who hasn't seen Bridgerton? Well, we have and we delve into all the scandalous details of this period drama with a modern twist, including that scene (Content Warning), the costumes and the colour conscious casting. Rhiannon rhapsodies about the highlight of the inauguration, Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb. Meanwhile, Alex has been finding out the salacious secrets of S&M spiders from the New Scientist. Rhiannon is back to tell us her final thoughts on Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life whilst Alex has been researching the Ethiopian struggle against Mussolini during her reading of Maaza Mengiste's The Shadow King. We have a big discussion about fat protagonists in This Is Us and James Corden's discussion of fat shaming; long story short, fat shaming doesn't work. And finally, Alex has watched a number of documentaries on the Obamas and has the audacity to compare young Barry to a ‘Lit Fuck Boi'. Let us know your thoughts on that! We are an accessible podcast so find transcripts in our linktree bio on our instagram @thegrandthunk. Follow us on social media @thegrandthunk or email us - thegrandthunk@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe, rate, review and tell all your friends. The Grand Thunk, the podcast in which Alex Blanchard and Rhiannon Kearns discuss the books they've been reading, the films and TV shows they've been watching and the podcasts they've been listening to! See below for a full list of what we discuss: Bridgerton - Netflix The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman New Scientist - Lenka Sentenská Lifelines by Al Smith - Radio 4 A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara James Corden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax1U04c4gaw This is Us - NBC & Amazon Prime The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste Barry - biopic about Barack Obama Becoming Documentary - Michelle Obama - Netflix
Helen Garner on writing in her diary in this troubled year and authors reflect on the impacts of coronavirus on the future of fiction.
Trent Dalton explains the concept of sky whispering, Booker shortlisted author Maaza Mengiste and Cressida Cowell's charmed childhood summers on a Viking island.
Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A Fulbright Scholar and professor in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation program at Queens College, she is the author of The Shadow King and Beneath the Lion's Gaze, named one of the Guardian's Ten Best Contemporary African Books. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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