September 2019
Scholastique Mukasonga at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Looking Back: Memoir, Auto-Fiction and the Worlds that Shape Us With Scholastique Mukasonga, Aleksandar Hemon, and Amit Chaudhuri. Moderated by Amitava Kumar. Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced to the polluted and under-developed Bugesera district of Rwanda. Mukasonga was later forced to leave the school of social work in Butare and flee to Burundi. She settled in France…
Find out more »Ambai at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Breaking Out: Women and Girls on Their Own Terms Mona Eltahawy (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls), Tamil writer Ambai (A Kitchen in the Corner of the House), and Téa Obreht (Inland) bring to life strong female voices of the past and present. From Eltahaway’s powerful #MeToo manifesto to Obreht’s reimagining the American West with a tale of an unflinching frontierswoman to Ambai’s courageous characters grappling with motherhood, self-assertion and sexuality - all three writers address issues of…
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