Adania Shibli

Palestinian writer Adania Shibli speaks to us about fiction writing against the backdrop of disorienting experiences as an effect of decades-long Israeli colonial violence in Palestine. Shibli does so primarily through her literature, but also through events like this one. Following Minor Detail, the story of a young woman’s rape in the aftermath of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba and the creation of the Israeli state, which was nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature, comes Delusion, a novel in which two young characters try to move throughlife when hardly anything is possible for Palestinians as they are stripped not only of their lands but also dignity and dreams.

After the event, the author will be signing copies of her books

Event in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish