exile – PEN Transmissions

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020

Exils

To close our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Scholastique Mukasonga writes a personal experience of exile as a Rwandan Tutsi

June 18, 2020June 27, 2020

Remembering Partition

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Kavita Puri writes on partition, memory and exile.

June 4, 2020June 27, 2020

How Do I Reconcile these Irreconcilable Things?

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Taqralik Partridge writes on Scotland, Canada, and language loss

May 21, 2020June 27, 2020

This Library Is Not an Artwork: An Interview with Edmund de Waal

To open our series with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Edmund speaks to us about his library of exile

December 12, 2019January 28, 2020

With this Novel, I Return: An Interview with Rafik Schami

Syrian-German novelist Rafik Schami discusses liberty, storytelling, language and exile.

May 17, 2018

After apocalypse, exile

I continue to be haunted by a persistent feeling of being neither here nor there: a sense of emptiness people can only experience when they feel they are uprooted from their natural environment.