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All articles filed in writing the past

writing the pastJune 19, 2018

Editorial: writing the past

We asked four writers to reflect on different aspects of how they write the past: from personal history to a country’s official past…

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writing the pastJune 19, 2018

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.

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writing the pastJune 19, 2018

The 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.’

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writing the pastJune 19, 2018

If 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…

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writing the pastJune 19, 2018July 30, 2019

The 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.

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