OUT NOW! Italian author Eleonora Balsano (who lives in Brussels) speaks & writes in multiple languages - but feels most @ home writing in English. While it's not her mother tongue, it's a language she's come to believe affords her more freedom as a writer. https://t.co/tGqa4lILhQ
New Flash by @CitizenBego
"Winter lay down fat in its white robe as if to die. The war was over, and he ached to get home after years of service in foreign parts."
https://t.co/UvQTPjAFvb
Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. https://t.co/iqcZnApbwC
We also have many exciting online events coming up.
First up is Café Littéraire: European Book Club, 7 October. We're discussing the excellent I Who Have Never Known Men with our host @norami
Just started reading a book about Joyce Lussu, a fascinating writer I have only just discovered. ‘Tis the poem she wrote for the love of her life, anti-fascist intellectual Emilio Lussu.
‘The long slumber was before
Meeting you.
Now that I’ve found you
I don’t want to sleep
I want my eyes open
To see your face
Now that you’ve smiled to me
I want to always think’
I got married long before dating apps were invented & I often think about how my life would have been affected. Would have I used them or recoiled from? Do everyone now uses them?
So, my dearest girl, it is evening again after a sleepless afternoon, nothing more is written, only to this girl to whom one always wants to write, from whom one always wants to hear, with whom one always wants to be, in whom one would most like to disappear.
Franz Kafka, 1912
There is always a moment, when we start writing in a second language, that we self-censor, feeling the magnitude of our incompetence. We think we’re not ready, that we’re not ‘good enough’, as Heidi Marjamäki, author and associate fiction editor of @okaydonkeymag, explains in this last episode of Season 4. In the end, we realise there is no such thing as good enough when it comes to language, whether it’s our mother tongue or a second one. Language is always evolving, and so are we.
Thank you all for listening and for writing such lovely reviews of the show. I’ll be taking a short break for the summer, but the list of guests for Season 5 is growing…