Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands: The History of a Friendship in conversation with Sinéad Morrissey 

Date: Thursday 2 November 
Time: 7.00pm to 8.00pm 
Venue: Culture Lab Newcastle University 
Cost: Free
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Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a 99-year-old German Jewish refugee called Henry Wuga. It is a story of migration, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience and is about the state we’re in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures. Homelands won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included in The Guardian’s top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bible, and Message From The Skies and recently completed a commission from the Alasdair Gray Archive. She writes for the Guardian, is the restaurant critic for Times Scotland, and broadcasts for BBC radio. 

Sinéad Morrisey is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. 

This event is in partnership with Gem Arts and Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts.

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