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Karim Kattan on writing between languages and landscapes 

Karim Kattan joins Georgina Godwin to discuss his upbringing in Bethlehem, putting Palestine in his own words and writing ‘The Palace on the Higher Hill’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Miami Book Fair

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  Harlan Greene at the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival

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  The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay

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  Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting

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  The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner

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  Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling

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  Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories

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  Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history

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  Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties

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  Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence

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  Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home

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  Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning

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  R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world

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  Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging

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  Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys

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  Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit