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Living in Translation
So I have been so looking forward to doing something in the lead up to International Translation Day which falls on the 30th of September every year. On Friday the 27th of September, I will be hosting a conversation with Tiffany Tsao and Chris Andrews at the Peter Shergold Building in Parramatta Square. The conversation…
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Diving, Falling Launch
On the 6th of September, I will be launching Diving, Falling, the debut novel by Kylie Mirmohamadi. This is an incredible book and I can’t wait to rave about it publicly. It begins with the death of Ken Black, a famous artist, and the fallout after his death, centred around the perspective of his wife,…
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Taxi as it first appeared in November 2020
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Politica Reviews
I try to keep all the reviews and interviews for each book in one place. Politica was released on the 3rd of January and it’s now been out in the world for almost five months. I have had a few events to discuss it publicly and to contextualise some of the fragments that appear in…
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Books I’ve Been Reading
Some good books I’ve been reading lately: Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi (translated by Chris Andrews) The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (translated by John Cullen) Exhalation by Ted Chiang Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (translated by Arunava Sinha) Enter Ghost is a…
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Guernica y Palestina Libre
My latest published piece is the very fragmentary Guernica in Meanjin. For some time now I have been thinking that the last 6 months with Gaza and Palestine require a new language. I keep searching for symbols that will help give me a framework to make sense of what I have witnessed. I wrote Guernica…
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Upcoming Events – Stella Prize and SWF
I have a few upcoming events. Next Thursday the 4th of April, I’ll be in conversation with Michelle Law where we will be discussing the Stella Prize shortlist which will be announced on the day. My first event ever at PHIVE in Parramatta will take place as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival on the…
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Greek Australiana and Liminal Interview
Two pieces of news. My second book, Australiana, has had its first translation ever, into Greek. This is a very exciting piece of news and I hope there are more translations in the future. I really would love to see all my books in Arabic and Spanish. The second piece of news is that I…
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Only Sound Remains by Hossein Asgari
I have been raving about Only Sound Remains since I read it back in August last year. It was the book I recommended in an interview with Books + Publishing. There was something oppressive about the confession of the father to his son. The book also moved seamlessly across time periods. There is such incredible…
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Books I’m Reading
I recently finished In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra by Amal Awad. I wish this book had existed years ago. I felt like it was written for me. It is the first thing I’ve read by Awad but it won’t be the last. I found a copy of Things You May Find Hidden in…
Yumna Kassab 