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Trailblazing publisher’s national tour heading to Bristol
Nikesh Shukla, celebrated Bristol-based writer, journalist and activist, who conceived of and edited the game-changing essay collection, The Good Immigrant, will be chairing a must-see event at the Central Library on May 20.
Shukla will be joined by four writers from one of the most exciting publishing imprints to appear in many years, Dialogue Books.
Dialogue, also publisher of Shukla’s recent co-edited essay collection, The Good Immigrant USA, was founded two years ago by bookseller, editor and visionary publisher, Sharmaine Lovegrove, to publish voices too-often ignored by the publishing industry. It is already having a major impact.
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Appearing at the Central Library alongside Shukla will be Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of the Women’s Prize longlisted Remembered, which has been compared to Toni Morrison’s Beloved by The Guardian and is ‘vital, important and humane’ according to the writer, Jenn Ashworth. Also on tour with Dialogue is former Folio Prize longlisted author, Niven Govinden, whose latest novel is This Brutal House, which writer Kerry Hudson calls ‘powerful and poetic’.
The line up also features Season Butler, whose very striking debut, Cygnet, the writer China Mieville calls ‘terribly moving’, and Saskia Vogel, whose first novel, Permission, is the work of ‘a gleaming new talent’ writes Arifa Akbar in The Guardian.
Bristol is one of four cities selected for Dialogue’s tour, a nod of approval for the city’s literature scene and a great opportunity to hear from and engage with the writers and publishers who are changing the face of UK publishing.
The Dialogue Books’ Tour will be at Bristol Central Library on May 20 at 7.30pm. For more information, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-celebrating-the-work-of-four-bold-and-engaging-authors-tickets-60190861487. Niven Govinden and Saskia Vogel will also be discussing their work at Redland Library at 5pm on May 20. For more information, visit https://friendsofredlandlibrary.org.uk/future-events/
Main picture clockwise from left to right: Niven Govinden, Season Butler, Nikesh Shukla, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Saskia Vogel
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