My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, ChipLitFest

April 23, 2022

One of the highlights of ChipLitFest 2022 was the event celebrating the publication of My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird (MacLehose Press, 2022). The BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, wrote the introduction to the book and came to Chipping Norton along with one of the translators, Zari Kargar, and the director of Untold Narratives, Lucy Hannah.

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