This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

J.M. Coetzee,William Sutcliffe,Michael Ondaatje

This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 June 2017
Pages
352
ISBN
9781408884980

This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

J.M. Coetzee,William Sutcliffe,Michael Ondaatje

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‘This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one’ - New Statesman

‘Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you’ - Suad Amiry ________________

The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, ‘the power of culture over the culture of power’.

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems and stories from some of the world’s most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and courage in the most desperate of situations.

Contributors: Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Victoria Brittain, Jehan Bseiso, Teju Cole, Molly Crabapple, Selma Dabbagh, Mahmoud Darwish, Najwan Darwish, Geoff Dyer, Yasmin El-Rifae, Adam Foulds, Ru Freeman, Omar Robert Hamilton, Suheir Hammad, Nathalie Handal, Mohammed Hanif, Jeremy Harding, Rachel Holmes, John Horner, Remi Kanazi, Brigid Keenan, Mercedes Kemp, Omar El-Khairy, Nancy Kricorian, Sabrina Mahfouz, Jamal Mahjoub, Henning Mankell, Claire Messud, China Mieville, Pankaj Mishra, Deborah Moggach, Muiz, Maath Musleh, Michael Palin, Ed Pavlic, Atef Abu Saif, Kamila Shamsie, Raja Shehadeh, Gillian Slovo, Ahdaf Soueif, Linda Spalding, Will Sutcliffe, Alice Walker

With messages from China Achebe, Michael Ondaatje and J. M. Coetzee ________________

‘Every literary act, whether it is a great epic poem or an honest piece of journalism or a simple nonsense tale for children is a blow against the forces of stupidity and ignorance and darkness … The Palestine Festival of Literature exists to do just that - and I salute it for its work. Not only this year but for as long as it is necessary’ - Philip Pullman

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