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Radio 4,26 Sep 2021,28 mins

Rabih Alameddine, English PEN at 100 with Philippe Sands and Elif Shafak, Editors' Pick

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Johny Pitts speaks to Rabih Alameddine about his new novel The Wrong End of the Telescope, the story of a Lebanese doctor who goes to Lesbos to help Syrian refugees. English PEN was founded in 1921 to support freedom of expression for writers. Phillipe Sands and Elif Shafak discuss why it is still relevant one hundred years later. And Neil Griffiths, co-founder of Weatherglass Books and founder of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, choses his Editors' Pick. Book List The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine The Ratline by Philippe Sands East West Street by Philippe Sands The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak The Dolls by Ursula Scavenius: Translated by Jennifer Russell

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