In the fourth segment of the Freedom Chat, Marina Nemat describes her experiences as a student during the Iranian Cultural Revolution. Marina also reveals her ebb and flow relationship with writing while she was imprisoned in Iran and afterwards when she moved to Canada.
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In this video interview with María López De León, she recounts her longstanding personal and professional dedication to the promotion of Latino arts, community, and culture. Ms. López is the Executive Director and a board member for the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She was also nominated by President Obama to be a member for the National Council on the Arts in 2012.
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In this Exile Hangout, writer-in-residence Israel Centeno engages Venezuelan authors Liliana Lara, Juan Carlos Chirinos, and Juan Carlos Mendez Guedez. They reveal the realities of living overseas as Venezuelan writers and they expand upon what it means to truly live “in exile” within and outside their country of origin.
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On April 12, 2014 author Akhil Sharma sat down with Sampsonia Way magazine for this edition of “The Writer’s Block” in which Akhil reveals his painstaking writing process and the twelve year span he invested in his latest novel Family Life.
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In the third installment of Sampsonia Way’s “The Freedom Chat”, journalist Andrea Daza Tapia shines a light on the media blackouts in Venezuela, reaffirms the power of social media, and she details the detriments incurred from the conflation of roles between media professionals and politicians.
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In this video, the late Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) tells the story of writing his famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the myriad challenges he and his wife Mercedes overcame in the process.
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On March 7, 2014, Moniro Ravanipour read from her work-in-progress and subsequently answered questions posed by audience members at the City of Asylum. In this Q&A on Sampsonia Way, Moniro explains her writing style, the journey to America, her thoughts on the “sound” of English vs. Farsi, and she divulges her secret to publishing in Iran.
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