Books & Spoken Word

Novel Writers – Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Date: Thursday, Feb 28 2019
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Spike Island
Price: £5/£3

Yara Rodrigues Fowler reads from and discusses her brilliant debut novel, Stubborn Archivist.

“This is a novel of growing up between cultures, of finding your space within them and of learning to live in a traumatized body. Our stubborn archivist tells her story through history, through family conversations, through the eyes of her mother, her grandmother and her aunt and slowly she begins to emerge into the world, defining her own sense of identity.

An exciting, bold, witty debut, Stubborn Archivist is unlike any book you’ve read, and one you won’t forget.”

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Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-English household in London, where she still lives. She has a BA in English from Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature at UCL. Yara is a trustee of Latin American Women’s Aid, the only refuge run for and by Latin American women in the UK and has also given workshops on gender and power to teenage girls with feminist organisation Fearless Futures.

Yara’s writing has been published in Litro, and the UCL Publishers’ Prize, and she received a Special Mention in the 2015 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Competition.

 

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By joe melia, Thursday, Dec 20 2018

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