Event T9
Hisham Matar and Kamila Shamsie talk to Pankaj Mishra
South to North Conversations: The Novel in the Age of Globalisation – A New Approach to Fiction
– Meadow Stage
For lovers of the craft of fiction, this is an unmissable discussion on how the modern Western novel became a global form, with three great writers. Hisham Matar and Kamila Shamsie talk to Pankaj Mishra about the challenges and opportunities of representing a complex world and global identities in fiction.
Matar’s debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Shamsie’s Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her novels have been shortlisted for multiple awards. Mishra’s latest book is The World After Gaza.
The session is hosted by Equator, a political and cultural magazine founded to tell stories traditionally neglected by Western narratives.
