Monica Ali,William Boyd and Marina Lewycka among the authors recruited with aim of shifting public perspectivesMajor authors including Monica Ali, William Boyd and Marina Lewycka are lining up to contribute writing to a recent crowdfunded anthology which aims to counter the anti-refugee rhetoric in the media.
A Country of Refuge will collect fiction, and poetry and memoir from bestselling names also including Sebastian Barry,Ruth Padel, Hanif Kureishi, and Amanda Craig and Elaine Feinstein. Editor Lucy Popescu,an author and former director of English PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee, is expecting the eventual list of contributors to number at least 25. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com