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A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

#newyorktimes #alekseinavalny #hishammatar #adamhigginbotham #author #oppositionleader

> À l’écouter, le courage a escaladé les murs et est entré par effraction.

**Hisham Matar**, *Mes amis*, traduction de David Fauquemberg, Gallimard, 2024, p.181

#HishamMatar #courage #citation #livre #livres #litterature

Most of #HishamMatar’s writing is sublime, but his most underrated work is “A Month in Siena”. One of the best *city* books that I have read in while on places, #art, arty fascinations, and its permanent etchings on people.

#Literature @bookstodon

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Guardian
Où l’exil se révèle un domicile universel

D’abord, il y a Big Ben qui résonne dans la cuisine où se réunit la famille. Khaled n’a jamais vu l’horloge mais il l’imagine, totémique, au centre d’un Londres circulaire. On est à Tripoli de...

L'Orient-Le Jour
Authors withdraw from PEN America festival in protest over Israel-Gaza war

Group of more than a dozen writers decry organization’s inadequate response to ‘genocide’ being committed by Israel

The Guardian