The original and unexpected stories of Afghan women writers, York Festival of Ideas, Online

June 20, 2022

Director of Untold Narratives, Lucy Hannah, poet andtranslator, Parwana Fayyaz, and contributing writer, Fatema, joined York Festival of Ideas to discuss the Write Afghanistan project.

The event explored the process of developing the anthology My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird (MacLehose Press, 2022) and the experiences of the Afghan writers, translators and editors who worked on the book.

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