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Writers discuss the representation of refugees in novels and plays. What ethical questions are involved? Is there a responsibility to represent refugees positively? How do you balance reportage with storytelling? What responsibility, if any, does the creative writer have to represent refugees positively or to tackle negative views?<\/p>\n
Featured writers:<\/p>\n
Nadifa Mohamed, author of Black Mamba Boy (winner of the Betty Trask Prize) and The Orchard Of Lost Souls. (\u201cA haunting and intimate portrait of the lives of women in war-torn Somalia . . . it captures the bleakness of war and the triumph of the human spirit.\u201d \u2014Meenakshi Venkat, New York Journal of Books)<\/p>\n
Chris Cleave, author of books including The Other Hand (\u201cA powerful piece of art\u2026 shocking, exciting and deeply affecting.\u201d \u2013 Independent). His other novels are Incendiary and Gold. He won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Costa Book Prize for The Other Hand.<\/p>\n
Zodwa Nyoni, poet and playwright whose play Nine Lives is set to for a UK Tour later this year (\u201cNyoni\u2019s interweaving of naturalism and poetry is superb, and lifts this show far beyond documentary, into unforgettable solo drama about one of the key experiences of our time.\u201d The Scotsman). Her new play Boi Boi Is Dead also opens in 2015.<\/p>\n
Tim Finch, author of The House of Journalists (\u201cA savagely funny broadside aimed at the industry of suffering\u201d Metro \u201c[An] effective mixture of often-light comedy and often-brutal reportage from the front line against tyranny\u201d Daily Mail) and former Director of Communications at the Refugee Council.<\/p>\n
Presented by Counterpoints Arts and Platforma Arts & Refugees Network in association with Index on Censorship.<\/p>\n