Exiled Life Cafe
This event on 8th April 2013 at 19:30 has past.
Contact: www.exiledwriters.co.uk
Exiled Writers Ink welcomes you to Exile: A Peculiar State of Being. With writers Yasin Aziz, Maria Eugenia Bravo Calderara, Victor Schonfeld and Bashir Sakhawarz.
Yasin Aziz is from the town of Halabja in South Kurdistan, Kurdistan Regional Government, North Iraq and came to England in 1984. He worked as a civil servant with the Inland Revenue for about 10 years. He started writing in 1988 after the bombardment of Halabja. He has published books in Kurdish, had poetry published in England and translation, reviews of books and articles published online about various topics in English and Kurdish. He recently completed a historical novel about the Kurds.
Maria Eugenia Bravo Calderara is a Chilean writer in exile. Her poetry collections are entitled Prayer in the National Stadium (London 1992) and Poems from Exile (Exiled Writers Ink, 2008). In 1993 in Chile she published a book about Pablo Neruda's poetry. Her short stories have been published in Chile and Spain while her poetry has appeared in anthologies published Europe-wide.
Victor Schonfeld is an award-winning filmmaker and more recently a prose fiction writer. He is renowned for a range of controversial films on hitherto taboo subjects. Long time resident in London, Schonfeld was born and raised in the USA. He will show part of his ITV network documentary MoneyLove which scrutinises the compulsive pursuit of wealth in his homeland, America, as seen through the prism of an expatriate, and he will be reading a short story in which he engages with related themes.
Special Visiting Guest Bashir Sakhawarz, an award-winning poet, novelist and short story writer. A native of war-torn Afghanistan, he has lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and Central America and worked for international organisations such as the United Nations, European Union, Asian Development Bank, International Red Cross and NGOs. Sakhawarz lives with his family in Geneva. He has just published his novel, Maargir, the Snake Charmer (Oct. 2012).
Hosted by Jennifer Langer, poet and essayist.
Entry: £4/3 EWI members
Time: 7:30pm
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