interviews
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Solvej Balle on time, morality, and searching.
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Rana Haddad and Raphael Cormack on holy men, charlatans, and how ‘East’ and ‘West’ saw each other.
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Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy, book bans.
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Issam Kourbaj on found art, the imagery of boats, and urgent archives.
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Johanne Lykke Holm on gender, witches, and doppelgängers.
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Chloe Gong on how YA fiction and Shakespeare shaped her writing voice.
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Friða Ísberg on freedom, referenda and Icelandic literature.
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Liliana Corobca and Monica Cure on children, Moldova, and secrets.
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Ben Okri on climate crisis, the purpose of writing, and what we leave behind.
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Lilith Bardakçı on the history and evolution of Lubunca, the language spoken by the LGBTQ+ community in Turkey.
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Baek Sehee and Anton Hur on mental health, collaboration and finding perspective.
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Aoko Matsuda and Polly Barton on prizes, patriarchy and politics.
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Ana Paula Maia on nausea, prose style, and cows. Translated by Carolina Orloff.
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Gulwali Passarlay responds to the proposed ‘Illegal Migration Bill’.
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Daniel Loedel on ghost stories, love stories, and searches after the 70s Argentine dictatorship.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied on identity and growing as a writer.
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Elisa Victoria on child narrators, comics, and post-Franco Spain. Translated by Charlotte Whittle.
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Bertrand Cooper speaks to Momtaza Mehri about the torsions of race and class in America.
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Ann-Helén Laestadius on her latest novel Stolen, and the Sámi community.
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Shehan Karunatilaka on language, living history, labour and luck.
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