Lecture by Arundhati Roy
Where is literature today – and tomorrow? What is the power of literature in offering empathy and fresh perspectives? In creating a space and a voice for those that are silenced? Does literature have the force to tackle the material and interpersonal challenges that we are faced with? Can it address the human condition and the future of human kind?
Arundhati Roy is one of the writers who will visit the House of Literature this fall, to explore these questions from her unique point of view.
A writer and an activist, she has tackled issues such as pollution, human rights abuses, industrialism and social inequality in both fictional and non-fictional form. Her critically acclaimed novels The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness show the rich, outrageous, beautiful, helter-skelter things big and small that make up the world around us, and the often surprising connections between them.
To mark our ten year anniversary, the House of Literature looks ahead. This fall, we have invited several writers who will shed light on these questions from their unique points of view; writers who, through their writing and work, in different ways approaches these themes, and offers a means to better understand our history and the world that we live in, through words, art and literature.
The lecture will be held in English.
In order to accommodate an expected large turnout, free tickets will be made available.
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