Thursday, 5 April 5 2018, 7-8:30pm, Pushkin House With Hamid Ismailov, Donal Rayfield, Rosie Goldsmith and Jemimah Steinfeld Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed ‘unacceptable democratic tendencies’. A wr
‘Freedom for all writers!’ Peirene stands in the middle of the office wearing full combat gear: camouflage trousers, camouflage jacket, camouflage cap; magazine pouch, grenade pouch, Kalashnikov swung over her shoulder. I swallow and hope that the gun isn’t loaded. I wouldn’t want her to acc
Wed 4 April, 6pm, Dorfman Theatre Tickets £7 (concessions £5). Buy tickets Number 1 bestselling crime-writer Jo Nesbo (The Snowman, The Thirst) discusses his gripping new thriller, Macbeth, on the eve of its publication. A rainy and corrupt industrial northern town in the 1970s, a place where dr
Leïla Slimani, Nathacha Appanah, Atiq Rahimi … they have all come from the Francophone world and are leading writers in France. In their native countries, however, they are not yet as well known, since often their work has not even been published here. The difficult relationship between France an
Coming-of-age stories seem to be enjoying a revival. Today, however, education means studying at a university, writing CVs and motivation letters, jobbing under fixed-term contracts and, for those who are lucky enough, working under a permanent contract. Intrinsically, this kind of education isn’t
Edward St Aubyn’s King Lear adaptation: Dunbar und seine Töchter In 2016 and to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the Hogarth Shakespeare Project was launched. Eight renowned writers (male and female) were invited to adapt Shakespeare’s time-honoured plays and tra
