Olja Knežević and Catherine the Great and the Small

'Where there is conflict, there is always a path to literature...Freedom is an important topic for me.'

What a pleasure to talk to the Montenegrin writer, Olja Knežević about her trans-generational novel, Catherine the Great and the Small (Istros Books). The novel is translated by Paula Gordon and Ellen Elias-Bursać

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Rippling Points:

• Lessons from writing in and about a civil war


• Why don't we write about grandmothers more?

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Reference Points

Writers

• Rachel Cusk


• Sheila Heti


• Karl Ove Knausgaard


• Olja's first novel - Milena and Other Social Reforms

Ideal lockdown literary listening. 

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