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Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo went in exile from the Franco dictatorship in 1956 and has never returned to live in Spain. He now lives in Marrakesh. He has written more about his acquaintance with Jean Genet in his autobiography, Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife.



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Jean Genet in Spain

feature

June 2013

Juan Goytisolo

TR. Peter Bush

feature

June 2013

‘1932. Spain at the time was over-run with vermin, its beggars. They went from village to village, in Andalusia because it’s hot, in Catalonia...

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Interview

March 2017

Interview with Bae Suah

Deborah Smith

Bae Suah

Interview

March 2017

The Essayist’s Desk, published in 2003 and written when its author Bae Suah had just returned from an 11-month...

Interview

March 2017

Interview with Ondjaki

Stephen Henighan

Interview

March 2017

Ondjaki is the most prominent African writer of Portuguese from the generations born after Portugal’s five former colonies on...

Interview

July 2014

Interview with Geoff Dyer

Tom Overton

Interview

July 2014

‘I’ve always believed that an artist is someone who turns everything that happens to him to his advantage’, Geoff...

 

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