When I visited the refugee camp in Calais with Olumide Popoola – conducting research for our book, breach – I imagined a day when the place named the “Jungle” would no longer exist. We’d all prefer, wouldn’t we? that those forced to flee their own countries receive protection, safe passage and opportunities to build new lives. With none […]
As editor and co-author of breach, Meike Ziervogel and I presented at the Babel Festival of Literature in Translation, held in the galleried Teatro Sociale of Bellinzona, Switzerland in September 2016. Like its print offspring, Specimen Press, Babel is the creation of director and poet Vanni Bianconi. In London as a Second Language, Vanni walks the reader through […]
So, this happened on 5 October 2016 in Waterstones‘ Piccadilly store. Lucy Popescu chaired a discussion with publisher-editor Meike Ziervogel, co-author Olumide Popoola and me. Thanks to friends, supporters and interested readers for filling the 3rd floor events section, and special thanks to Wien de Smet for photographs, mic expertise and general splendidness. And if you’re […]
Please join Olumide Popoola and me, in conversation with our publisher-editor Meike Ziervogel, chaired by Lucy Popescu, at 7 pm on Wednesday 5 October 2016 at Waterstones, Piccadilly, to launch our collection of short fiction inspired by interviews and experiences of the refugee camp in Calais. If you can make it – and we hope […]
Woke up on 29 July to find ours was Book of the Day on The Guardian website. I cannot recommend this too highly as a happy-making start to a Friday. Co-author Olumide Popoola and I were on blog tour last week with our publisher, Meike Ziervogel, and now Peirene Press is posting links to lit blogs and reviews as they come in. […]
