All the writers in our closing event have contributed in stunning ways to the literature of their countries and to the understanding of Europe’s most pressing problems, whether through accounts of ordinary lives on the move in war-torn Ukraine from soldier-writer Chapeye, refugee tales from bestselling Cypriot novelist Lefteri, or from Portugal, the story of Hanna wandering round the rubble of post-WW2 Europe.
With:
Artem Chapeye (Ukraine)
Christy Lefteri (Cyprus)
Gonçalo M. Tavares (Portugal)
CHAIR: Bee Rowlatt
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About the chair:
Bee Rowlatt is a writer, and producer at the British Library. Her fiction debut One Woman Crime Wave (2024), was described by crime queen Liz Nugent as: “a fantastic novel about fractured families, class and the politics of parenting.” Bee’s travelogue In Search of Mary (2015) was a ‘biography of the year’. She co-wrote the bestseller Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad (2010) and was one of the presenters of BBC TV’s Austen: Rise of a Genius. She is chair of the Wollstonecraft Society and was recently awarded an MBE for services to women’s rights.
