Hope When Home is Lost

About the event

How does our understanding of the ideas of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ shift in a war-torn and warming world?

This event features a powerful conversation with two authors writing urgently about displacement and connection: Alycia Pirmohamed (poet and winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize with non-fiction debut, Shorelines, and PhD in Creative Writing, 2021), and Ece Temelkuran (essayist and Women’s Prize for Nonfiction-shortlisted author of Nation of Strangers).

Chaired by Mohamed Tonsy.

How to attend

This event is part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It is costed, and tickets are available through the Book Festival website.

Are you interested in English Literature at Edinburgh?

We offer a wide range of undergraduate programmes, taught masters, and research degrees, including a Masters by Research and a PhD. As an undergraduate, you will read works of literature written in English from around the world, and encounter a range of ideas about the nature and purpose of literary study.

Our courses explore the relationship between literary texts and the construction of national, international and imperial cultures. Working with colleagues in LLC and across the wider University, we are able to support postgraduate research which crosses boundaries between languages and disciplines.