Hay Festival Cartagena 2024

The space available for writing should always be a safe place for the artist, but are there external limitations on the imaginations of writers? Jon Lee Anderson will talk to the Congolese writer In Koli Jean Bofane, author of Mathématiques Congolaises, and the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli, author of Minor Detail, about their experiences as creators, their perspective with regard to freedom of expression, and how this has affected their work.

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This event will be part of the South to South series, in which the Hay Festival offers a forum for some of the most innovative voices of the global South, in order to share different ways of seeing the world, as well as non-Western solutions to the problems that beset us. The four guests at this event will talk about post-colonialism and ways of seeing the world that challenge the dominant models. With Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), writer and filmmaker; In Koli Jean Bofane (Congo), writer and author of Mathematiques Congolaises; Pankaj Mishra (India), essayist and novelist; and Erna von der Walde (Colombia), writer and academic. In conversation with Juan Esteban Lewin Pinzón.

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David Olusoga (Nigeria/UK) is a historian, TV presenter, filmmaker, University of Manchester professor and the author of numerous books. In his book Black and Britishcthe writer studies the historical past of the Atlantic isles and their relationship with Africa and the Caribbean, in the light of movements such as Black Lives Matter. The essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra (India) is the author of ten books about postcolonial India and the transformation of south and central Asia in the context of globalization. His most recent publication, Run and Hide, tells the story of Arun, a man who always wanted to escape from the small Indian town where he was born. The Palestinian writer Adania Shibli, PhD in Media and Cultural Studies, is the author of Minor Detail; twice awarded the Young Writer's Award – Palestine awarded by AM Qattan Foundation, for her novels, she has also written for media such as Al-Karmel, Al-Adaab, Iowa Review, Sight & Sound Esprit, La Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Le Monde Diplomatique. The authors will talk to Leonard Benardo.

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