Walled In

Ben Okri, David Hare and Samira Ahmed

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This event took place on 23 September 2019

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Walled In
Ben Okri, David Hare and Samira Ahmed

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This event took place on 23 September 2019

Writers Ben Okri, David Hare and Samira Ahmed consider walls in literature and in our lives; physical, political, societal and spiritual. This event took place in partnership with the British Library, The Royal Society of Literature, English PEN, Free Word, Hachette UK, Index on Censorship, Islington Council’s Library and Heritage Service, Libraries Connected, Media Diversified and The Publisher’s Association.

This event was hosted as part of Banned Books Week 2019, a celebration of the freedom to read.

Speakers

Samira Ahmed

Journalist

Samira Ahmed is a freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 3's Night Waves and Radio 4's PM, The World Tonight, and Front Row. She presents the Intelligence Squared podcast ‘How I Found My Voice’.

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David Hare

Playwright and Filmmaker

David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. He has written over thirty plays which include Plenty, Racing Demon and Skylight. His many screenplays include The Hours, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy.

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Ben Okri

Poet

Ben Okri OBE is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer and playwright. His novels include the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, the first in a trilogy, and The Freedom Artist, published in 2019.

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