Shadow Histories: Writing What You Don’t Know
Christine Wu on reimagining family history.
identity
identity – PEN Transmissions
Kurdishness: A Matter of Existence and Non-Existence
Nurcan Baysal on Kurdish language, culture and identity. Translated by Nazım Dikbas.
I Want to Be Commissioned to Review Love Island
June Bellebono on the pigeonholing of identities, being commissioned on topics other than that which you embody, and Love Island.
Identity and durability
Paulo Scott writes for PEN Atlas about the need for Brazilian authors to move away from stories about 'white guys, living in the big urban centres', and how a vain desire for durability has stunted the literature of his country
An ‘archival identity’
This week PEN Atlas hears from Carmen Bugan, daughter of Romanian dissident Ion Bugan, on the discovery of previously classified files about her family that were kept by secret police during the 1980s in Romania. A fascinating and moving account about dissidence, family and identity.