We asked four writers to reflect on different aspects of how they write the past: from personal history to a country’s official past…
Read More
Against the ignorant sun
The first gay couple I ever saw in real life was a pair of Dutch film festival co-directors who visited Pasar Rawalumbu, a market where my mother ran a kiosk selling clothes.
Read MoreThe past is a dimension of the present: a conversation with Javier Cercas
‘I’m not interested in history itself. I’m interested in the past that has not passed.’
Read MoreIf Gaza were a story
It dawned on me that the people around me needed a serious antidote to the historical amnesia that had taken hold of them…
Read MoreThe past and the present side by side: a conversation with Peter Kimani
I am contesting the validity of history as we know it, because what is recorded is never told from the perspective of the victim, it is always the victor.
Read More
PEN Transmissions 