My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Wimbledon Book Fest

June 12, 2022

Untold Narratives’ director Lucy Hannah and translator Zarghuna Kargar were in conversation with journalist Sanam Shantyaei at this live event on Wimbledon Common to discuss the Write Afghanistan project and the creation of the anthology My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women (MacLehose Press, 2022).

They were joined by two of the contributing Afghan writers, who were live-streamed in from Germany and Afghanistan, to discuss their love for writing and the inspiration behind their stories.

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