Arnon Grunberg meets with Adania Shibli and talks with her about her latest novel Minor Detail. In Minor Detail we follow a young woman who becomes obsessed with the brutal rape and murder of a Palestinian girl by a group of Israeli soldiers in 1949. Grunberg will talk with Shibli about the novel and the topics that lie at the heart of it, such as war, freedom, injustice, violence and the limits of empathy. How to write about injustice and violence, and what are the limits of language when you do?
Adania Shibli has been writing novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays, which were published in various anthologies, art books, and literary and cultural magazines in different languages. Her stories deal with everyday themes such as love and family, but are always set against the violent background of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Twice she won the prize for young writer of the year (AM Qattan Foundation).
Her Arabic novels Touch, We are all even far from love and Minor Detail have been translated into English. In addition, she wrote many non-fictional works, including the art book Disposition and the collection of essays A journey of ideas about: in dialogue with Edward Said. Alongside her writing, Shibli is engaged in academic research, and since 2013 she has been teaching part-time at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural studies, Birzeit University, Palestine.
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23 мар 2023
