Elif Shafak - Staying Sane in an Age of Division
Season 1, Episode 31, Aug 18, 2020, 03:29 PM
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Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with Elif Shafak, a powerful storyteller whose works of fiction and non-fiction and global TED Talks have touched the hearts and minds of millions of people in fifty different languages on the planet.
Her latest book is a short but fluent survey of the ‘collective narcissism’ threatening to pull nations apart at a time when we all face the same, immediate, existential threats of pandemic, climate change and nuclear war.
In this episode we meet the world-renowned writer, Booker prize nominee, political scientist, campaigner, speaker, literary judge, and multiculturalist Elif Shafak, who wants us to rebuild our “polarised and troubled world” with humanity and respect for stories beyond our own mental and physical borders…
How do we stop fear and anxiety about the future turning into disillusion and bewilderment when, even without the pandemic, domestic politics and wealth inequality are building walls between us every day?
Get a copy of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division HERE
Get a copy of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division HERE