A series of newly recorded, in-depth conversations with authors published by Fitzcarraldo Editions about their work, touching on process, style, form, themes an...
Edward Said & The Question Of Palestine At The Southbank Centre
To mark the re-publication of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine, this landmark event held at the Royal Festival Hall on 20 November gathers eight key authors to reflect on the enduring legacy of Said’s work and its role in the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
Jehad Abusalim (via video), Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Saree Makdisi, Max Porter, Jacqueline Rose, Wadie Said, Avi Shlaim and Ahdaf Soueif, hosted by Aimee Shalan, consider what The Question of Palestine has become today, and the painful contradiction that Said himself would observe: that Palestinian gains in international moral and cultural standing since the book’s publication have done nothing to prevent the continuous losses of land and life; and that the establishment of Palestinian histories and narratives in the broader public imagination has led not to equality, but to dehumanisation and death on a scale previously unimaginable.
Presented in cooperation with the Palestine Festival of Literature and the Southbank Centre. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.
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The Fitzcarraldo Editions Archive: Esther Kinsky In Conversation With Gareth Evans
Esther Kinsky in conversation with Gareth Evans: Esther Kinsky, author of River (tr. Iain Galbraith), Grove, Rombo and most recently Seeing Further (all tr. Caroline Schmidt), speaks with Gareth Evans, writer, editor and film/event producer. The discussion touches on the physicality of the writing process, telling a story without plot as the structuring principle, making the sensory presence of the world felt in language, and the personal and collective histories that words bear.
Recorded at Young Space in September 2024. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.
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The Fitzcarraldo Editions Archive: Daisy Hildyard In Conversation With Filipa Ramos
Daisy Hildyard in conversation with Filipa Ramos: Daisy Hildyard, author of Hunters in the Snow, The Second Body and Emergency, which was awarded the 2023 RSL Encore Award, speaks to writer and curator Filipa Ramos about her work to date. The conversation touches on accommodating different forms of life – human, animal, plant – in writing, the ways in which stories come to live independently of their teller, relating experiences that happen outside of language, and humility in the face of our limited knowledge. Recorded at Young Space in July 2024. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.
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The Fitzcarraldo Editions Archive: Sheila Heti In Conversation With Juliet Jacques
Sheila Heti in conversation with Juliet Jacques: Sheila Heti, author of Alphabetical Diaries, Pure Colour, Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?, among other works, speaks to writer, journalist and filmmaker Juliet Jacques, whose published works include Monaco, Variations and Trans: A Memoir, about her writing to date. The discussion touches on revealing the hidden face of the self in writing, taking contemporary culture seriously as subject matter, the possibility of capturing ‘the spirit of the age’ in a time of fragmentation, and the unconscious processes that shape our lives. Recorded at Young Space in May 2024. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.
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The Fitzcarraldo Editions Archive: Jessica Au In Conversation With Lucy Caldwell
Jessica Au in conversation with Lucy Caldwell: Jessica Au, author of Cold Enough for Snow, winner of the 2020 Novel Prize, speaks to Lucy Caldwell, author of Intimacies and Openings, about the themes and ideas at work in her writing, including the dissonances between our external and internal worlds, the grief of growing apart from parental figures, the absences in the histories of migrant families, and the search for truth and commonality. Recorded at Young Space in April 2024. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.
A series of newly recorded, in-depth conversations with authors published by Fitzcarraldo Editions about their work, touching on process, style, form, themes and influences.
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