The Long Search for Home: Writing the Refugee Experience
Three authors talk about their powerful language-spanning novels that explore the meaning and search for home. At the Cheltenham Literature Festival
Set on the wild Welsh coast, the English-language debut from two-time Wales Book of the Year winner Caryl Lewis, Drift, is a tender and unusual love story between an incarcerated Syrian mapmaker and an isolated Welsh woman thrown together by a violent storm. Dutch author of Iraqi descent Rodaan Al Galidi’s novel The Leash and the Ball draws on the author’s own experience of nine years in an asylum centre in the Netherlands. Together they talk to Literary Explorer in Residence Ann Morgan about their powerful language-spanning novels that explore the meaning and search for home.
When? Monday 10 October 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where? The Hive
Book tickets here: https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/whats-on/2022/the-long-search-for-home-writing-the-refugee-experience