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Registration is open! Sign up for Unlock Your Heart: Creative Non-Fiction, a 2-part online workshop led by Ira Mathur, author of Love the Dark Days, winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction. Full details at: academy.bocaslitfest.com/event/unlock-y… #bocas2024 #bocasacademy Ira Mathur

Registration is open! Sign up for Unlock Your Heart: Creative Non-Fiction, a 2-part online workshop led by Ira Mathur, author of Love the Dark Days, winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction.
Full details at: academy.bocaslitfest.com/event/unlock-y…
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Reviewed Ira Mathur's Love the Dark Days (Ira Mathur) One of the most powerful aspects of Love the Dark Days is its unflinching exploration of the psychological toll that migration and cultural dislocation can exact on an individual. kitaab.org/2024/08/19/boo…

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Sunday Offering T&T Guardian womenwriters In an age dominated by the cult of personality, Elena Ferrante's dedication to her craft and her choice to remain out of the public eye speak volumes about her commitment to literature. Her novels offer a refuge from the superficiality

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In an age dominated by the cult of personality, Elena Ferrante's dedication to her craft and her choice to remain out of the public eye speak volumes about her commitment to literature. Her novels offer a refuge from the superficiality
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Sunday Offering 🙏🏾 #WomenWriters "I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not, except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question of how much it depends on how we react to the damage: whether

Sunday Offering 🙏🏾 #WomenWriters 
"I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not, except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question of how much it depends on how we react to the damage: whether
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Ira Mathur explores the complex dynamics among the women of her family through her memoir, Love the Dark Days, writes Nandini Bhatia. #memoir #family #colonialism #bookreview #book Uddalak Mukherjee Ira Mathur Speaking Tiger telegraphindia.com/books/a-darkne…

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Welsh Landscape R. S. Thomas To live in Wales is to be conscious At dusk of the spilled blood That went into the making of the wild sky, Dyeing the immaculate rivers In all their courses. It is to be aware, Above the noisy tractor And hum of the machine Of strife in the

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"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has declined to accept an award from New York City’s Noguchi Museum after it fired three employees for wearing keffiyeh head scarves, an emblem of Palestinian solidarity." aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26…

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Sunday offering on Friday. I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing- Jean Rhys #JeanRhys T&T Guardian McKenzie

Sunday offering on Friday. 

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing- Jean Rhys

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Sunday offering on Monday 🇰🇷📚 On 10th October 2024, Han Kang, became the first South Korean and the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 53, she is the 18th woman to receive the prestigious award. The Swedish Academy praised Han for her "intense poetic

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On 10th October 2024, Han Kang, became the first South Korean and the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 53, she is the 18th woman to receive the prestigious award. The Swedish Academy praised Han for her "intense poetic
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Sunday offering on Monday 🙏🏾 "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life, there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." – The Autobiography of My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid T&T Guardian Commonwealth Foundation Creatives

Sunday offering on Monday 🙏🏾 
"My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life, there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind."
– The Autobiography of My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid

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With roots in two lands and cultures, Ira Mathur and Sheena Patel, Indian immigrants to Trinidad and Britain, tell stories that touch on their close kinship to two different spaces and contexts. At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2025, journalist and political thinker Mathur

With roots in two lands and cultures, Ira Mathur and Sheena Patel, Indian immigrants to Trinidad and Britain, tell stories that touch on their close kinship to two different spaces and contexts. At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2025, journalist and political thinker Mathur
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“The dead do not leave us” - At jaipurlitfest, Ira Mathur, author, 'Love the Dark Days', a memoir, spoke to Saurabh about royal betrayals and a life far from her roots. hindustantimes.com/books/ira-math…