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Podcast: De Balie
Episode: Freedom Lecture: Sulaiman Addonia in conversation with Arnon Grunberg
Description: Sulaiman Addonia writes provocative works of fiction that show the multicolored reality of refugees. Stories not just of trauma, but also of love, sex and autonomy. Arnon Grunberg will engage in conversation with Addonia about telling your story on your own terms.‘I looked towards the West as this amazing free space. Now I look at writers in the global South and envy them: they’re the ones facing imprisonment, but writing without fear,’ said the Eritrean-Ethiopian-British writer Sulaiman Addonia last year in an interview in The Guardian. For his provocative works of fiction he draws inspiration from his...