A Country of Refuge: An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers

Lucy Popescu is a writer, editor and critic with a background in human rights. She was director of English PEN's Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. She has previously edited the PEN anthology Another Sky (2007) and Freedom From Torture's Body Maps (2011). The Good Tourist, her book about ethical travel and human rights, was published in 2008. She works closely with organisations working for and with refugees.

Title: A Country of Refuge: An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers

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ISBN: 9781783522682

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Publisher: Unbound

Publication Date: 2016-06-02

Number of Pages: 224

Weight: 0.5036 kg

Full of powerful writing. Many of the best contributions come from writers who are refugees, or second-generation refugees, themselves ... Again and again, these writers argue for empathy. * TLS *
A powerful, and frequently harrowing, collection ... I read it with fascination -- Penelope Lively
A beautiful insight into the painful individuality of the refugee -- Jon Snow
A first-class collection of essays and poems, stories and memoirs. Addictively readable, they are strong, angry, compassionate and enlightening. -- Sue Gaisford * The Tablet *
It is a moving, poignant, sometimes painful but always enlightening book ... rich and wide-ranging... -- Judith Vidal-Hall * Literary Review *