Our guest Italianist this month is Clarissa Botsford who interviews the celebrated Italian author Igiaba Scego. From rising star and award-winning novelist Scego – the author, jo
From rising star and award-winning novelist Igiaba Scego – the author, journalist and researcher, born in Rome to family of Somali ancestry – comes The Colour Line, winner of t
A prolific author, journalist and academic, born in Rome to Somali parents, Igiaba Scego writes about blackness, history, literature, art and Italy. When asked by the publishing ho
‘New Italians’, ‘blended Italians’, ‘migrant literature’ – quite rightly, these categories are rejected by writers placed within them. There is no one-size-fits-all d
