My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird - New Fiction by Afghan Women

An anthology of contemporary women's short fiction in translation, featuring work by emerging women writers from across Afghanistan.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lyse Doucet is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and a senior presenter with BBC World News television and BBC World Service radio. She is regularly deployed to present special news coverage from the field and report across the BBC's domestic and global outlets.

Lyse spent fifteen years as a BBC foreign correspondent with postings in the Middle East, West Asia and West Africa. She has been reporting from Afghanistan since 1988 when she lived in Kabul and has been a frequent visitor ever since.

Lyse was nominated to the Order of Canada in 2018 and received an OBE in the Queen's Honours list in 2014 for her services to broadcasting.
Lucy Hannah specialises in setting up and delivering creative initiatives. She is founder and director of Untold Narratives CIC. She's also a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, London, and a Director of the BOCAS Lit Fest in Trinidad.

Zusammenfassung

An anthology of contemporary women's short fiction in translation, featuring work by emerging women writers from across Afghanistan.

Zusatztext

If fiction offers a window into the world, this is a book of stories you need to open

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Various Authors, Lyse Doucet, Lucy Hannah, Various
• Mitarbeit: Lyse Doucet (Einführung), Lucy Hannah (Nachwort), Hannah Lucy (Nachwort)
• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.02.2022
• EAN: 9781529422214
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-2221-4
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Afghanistan, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Military / Afghan War (2001-), Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary