Patrice Nganang describes his reading diet: “I read and stop, this book, that book, without distinction. Sometimes I read all the books of an author, and then move to other writers. I just finished reading the books by Cameroonian writer Max Lobe, and now it is Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor I am reading, after this I am reading Imbolo Mbue.”
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Born in Havana, Cuba in 1971, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is now earning his doctorate in comparative literature at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. He blogs at Lunes de Post-Revolución and collaborates with Diario de […]
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Born in Istanbul in 1953, Tarik Günersel studied English literature and worked at Istanbul Metropolitan Theater as a dramaturg, actor, and director. He contributed to the establishment of World Poetry Day and has written opera libretti […]
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Author Irina Reyn’s female protagonists are the opposite of content, and that gives her more fodder for the tension that drives her fiction.
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“You become a part of where you are from, and your homeland becomes a part of you”
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This September, Words without Borders presents writing about and from exile.
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The PEN Ten is PEN America’s biweekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand. This week Lauren talks with Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, a photographer and writer from Havana, Cuba.
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