Events- On Refuge
On Refuge
Lucy
Popescu, editor of A Country
to Call Home, presents an evening
of readings and discussion on the subject of refuge with
https://www.waterstones.com/events/on-refuge/london-gower-street
Lucy Popescu is a writer and editor with a background
in human rights. She is a former
director of English PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee and co-edited the PEN
anthology Another Sky. She is also
the author of The Good Tourist, about
human rights and ethical travel, and edited the anthologies A
Country to Call Home and A Country of Refuge about the
experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. She is a volunteer mentor with
Write to Life, Freedom from Torture’s refugee writing group.
Kim Sherwood’s stories and articles
have appeared in various journals, including Mslexia, Lighthouse, and Going Down Swinging. Kim began writing her
debut novel, Testament, after her grandfather, the actor George Baker, passed
away. At the same time, Kim's grandmother began to talk about her experiences
as a Holocaust survivor. Their experiences were the inspiration for a story
that grew as Kim undertook research into the events of the Holocaust in
Hungary, and as extremism rose again across Europe.
Daniel Trilling is the editor of New Humanist magazine and has reported
extensively on refugees in Europe. His work has been published in the London Review of Books, The Guardian and
the New York Times and won a 2017
Migration Media Award. His first book, Bloody
Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s
Far Right, was longlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. Lights in the Distance, researched
over five years, is a compelling collection of stories about the people he has
encountered as they travel towards Europe in search of safety or a better life.
Ellen Wiles is a novelist, literary anthropologist
and live literature curator. Ellen’s debut novel, The Invisible Crowd, is about
an asylum seeker’s experiences in the UK, serendipitous encounters and the
power of kindness. It was inspired by a case Ellen worked on as a barrister,
and her voluntary work with refugees.
Meike Ziervogel is an author of four
novels. Her debut novel Magda was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker
prize and nominated as a book of the year 2013 by the Irish Times, Observer and
Guardian readers. She is also a successful publisher. Her Peirene Now confronts
topical political subjects. She will be talking about and reading from Shatila
Stories, a collaborative novel, written by nine refugee writers from
the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.
Please book tickets in
advance to guarantee a place…
