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10.02.2021

Lit_cast Slovakia #21: Irena Brežná

Lit_cast Slovakia #21: Irena Brežná

In LitCast Slovakia #21 the award-winning writer and journalist Irena Brežná talks to Julia Sherwood about rebelling against the dogma of writing in her native language, the importance of maintaining an outsider’s perspective and avoiding the trap of assimilation. She also talks about her political birth during the Prague Spring of 1968, about combining writing with activism as well as feminism.

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Excerpt from Die Beste Aller Welten (The Best of All Worlds or On Chicken Wings), trans. by Janet Livingstone

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