Wasafiri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Excited to share an extract from Theodora Danek's review essay for Wasafiri 113, on three translated texts about war: 'Five Days Untold' by @AuzkgXhoQr3Lm5t, 'Lucky Breaks' by Yevgenia Belorusets & 'What Have You Left Behind?' by Bushra Al-Maqtari. Read: https://t.co/GaE69EsAlU https://t.co/LwQMIODBmx

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Shortlisted for last year's #QueenMaryWasafiriNewWritingPrize, Susie Thornberry's short story creates a striking portrait of sisterhood & loss. Read here: https://t.co/yQxzpCerdf Find out more on entering this year's prize on our website. 📷 Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash https://t.co/vzvHSQSAeB

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The renowned Black feminist scholar Carole Boyce Davies is launching her latest book, Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power, in London this month: @SOAS - 3 April @britishlibrary 4 April https://t.co/qjwRxueYgl https://t.co/0Dkgi38MOa

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Jarula M I Wegner on Amartya Sen's Home in the World (@wwnortonUK/@LiverightPub) Mohammad Chowdhury's Border Crossings (@unbounders); Mariangela Palladino on Yousif M Qasmiyeh's Writing the Camp (@brokensleep); Carol Leon on Leone Ross' The Bread the Devil Knead (@MyriadEditions)

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If you enjoyed reading the @GuardianBooks profile of @mieko_kawakami — contributor to our special issue, ‘Japan: Literatures of Remembering’ — might we recommend this extract from her new novel, BREASTS AND EGGS (@picadorbooks), on our website? #WITMonth https://t.co/NQh6d0mabG

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Congrats to Anjali Kajal and Kavita Bhanot✊ Kavita recently contributed to our REIMAGINING EDUCATION issue, writing on Sathnam Sanghera’s 'Empireland' & Other Colonial Anti-Colonial Histories. Shop the issue: https://t.co/gGOXgZrXgD Or access the piece: https://t.co/qeqgKbKczW https://t.co/rZXaeXetSZ https://t.co/32gFsf4h90

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Our 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Leila Aboulela, is launching her new novel, River Spirit, at @CAS_SOAS on Monday 6th March. Tickets are free and can be found here: https://t.co/QhkZsPiCFf

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#BraveNewWords, an anthology curated and edited by Wasafiri founder @susheila_nasta, is featured in @thebookseller today. Essays by @BernardineEvari @RomeshG @tabish_khair @keimiller @msolumide @novelniche and more. #Wasafiri35 Press pre-order now: https://myriadeditions.com/books/brave-new-words/ https://t.co/3aOta0JFij

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Danelle We on Mukoma Wa Ngugi's Unbury our Dead With Song (@CassavaRepublic); Kris Van der Bijl on T L Huchu's The Library of the Dead (@panmacmillan) & Jack Rutherford on The American Way: Stories of Invasion (@commapress).

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We're delighted to share a new, exclusive piece by @AanchalMalhotra, this year's Life Writing judge for the #QueenMaryWasafiriNewWritingPrize! In 'The Small h history of Life', she examines the origins of life writing & her own work on the Partition✨ https://t.co/k152P00qLn https://t.co/T6TVkJpCRd