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"Lea Ypi’s prize-winning memoir,
Free, detailed the experience of growing up
in Albania both before and after communist rule. Her new book,
Indignity,
reconstructs the life of her grandmother, who arrived in Tirana from Salonica
as a young woman and became closely involved with the country’s political life.
She currently holds the Ralph Miliband chair in politics and philosophy at the
London School of Economics. The Turkish writer Elif Shafak is author of more
than 20 books, both nonfiction and fiction, including the Booker-shortlisted
novel
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World and, most recently,
There
Are Rivers in the Sky. When the pair talked over videocall, Ypi travelling in
India and Shafak at home in London, their conversation ranged over the threats
of censorship and the rise of populism, the challenges of being writers with
multiple identities and the importance of representing complex historical
events in their work."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
