Writing as Refuge with Sulaiman Addonia
Event information
Where: 1b Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5PH
Date: Tuesday 14 October
Time: 6-7pm
Cost: Free, booking required
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Join Eritrean-Ethiopian-British writer Sulaiman Addonia in conversation with writer Preti Taneja. They will explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the impact of the UK asylum system on young refugees, through the lens of Sulaiman’s third novel, The Seers.
Sulaiman Addonia is an acclaimed writer who has been published in LitHub, Granta and the New York Times. He spent his early life in refugee camps in Sudan and Saudi Arabia before arriving in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee, speaking no English, and went on to earn degrees from SOAS and UCL.
Sulaiman lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile. In 2021 he was awarded Belgium’s Golden Afro Artistic Award for Literature.
Supported by Flanders Literature as part of the Flip Through Flanders programme.
In addition to this event, Sulaiman Addonia will be delivering a masterclass to our multilingual creative writing group World Writes on Monday 13 October, 4:30-6:30pm at the John Marley Centre in the West End of Newcastle. For more information about attending the masterclass and being part of World Writes, please contact [email protected].