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Tag Archives: life-writing

I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue (Norway)

A thought-provoking, Barbellion Prize-longlisted memoir on living with disability by Norwegian academic Jan Grue

Posted byimogenglad2nd May 2022Posted inbookTags: Barbellion Prize, books, disability, Europe, life writing, life-writing, memoir, non-fiction, Norway, prize nominees, translated literature2 Comments on I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue (Norway)

Review of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (Albania)

Much-lauded memoir of growing up in a secretive and rapidly changing Albania in the 1980 and 1990s

Posted byimogenglad23rd Mar 202223rd Mar 2022Posted inbookTags: Albania, Albania month, Albanian politics, book review, books, coming of age, Europe, female writers, Free, life writing, life-writing, memoir, political history, politics4 Comments on Review of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (Albania)

Deborah Levy’s “Real Estate”

Deborah Levy’s wonderful work of almost-memoir, ‘Real Estate’

Posted byimogenglad3rd Jun 20214th Jun 2021Posted inbookTags: 2021 releases, 20booksofsummer, 20booksofsummer21, autobiography, deborah levy, life-writing, memoir, real estate10 Comments on Deborah Levy’s “Real Estate”

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