Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
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Not permanent, but real: a conversation with Selva Almada
‘Charismatic and powerful men, at least in our societies, see their role as looking after their own interests rather than serving others. That’s how it is, and more and more so as neoliberalism takes hold of our governments.’
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Carlos Gamerro explores why so many young Argentinian writers, children of the disappeared, write in the shadow of Shakespeare
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Patricio Pron writes a moving piece for PEN Atlas, about an encounter in a small German city that made him reflect on collective guilt, individual responsibility and the nature of the past, both for a person and a country
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