"Housed here, these works were a lot closer to where they had been conceived and created than in London, New York or Berlin. Unlike the fate of their creators, theirs was a more survivable kind of exile. At least that’s what I kept telling myself."
9: Read a Book About Exile
For Refugee Week in the UK, organizers are asking people to do 20 Simple Acts to celebrate 20 years of Refugee Week. Number 9 is "Read a Book About Exile."
Disrupting Refugee Literature: ‘Whatever Else, The Language Needs To Change’
"Whatever else, the language" -- and how it binds up the ways we see or don't see those people we call "refugees" -- "needs to change."
Special Issue of Refugee Poetry, MPT Launches ‘The Great Flight’
"The issue also includes work by five Assyrian Iraqi poets, the great Algerian poet-translator-scholar Habib Tengour, and Algerian poet and novelist Mohammed Dib."
The Poet Cannot Stand Aside: Writing in Exile
This month, Words Without Borders has focused on "Writing Exile." As you might expect, many of the featured authors write in Arabic.
