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The story of an Afghan women’s writing group, The British Library, London, 16 September 2024

The story of an Afghan women’s writing group, The British Library, London, 16 September 2024

To mark the launch of My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024), some of the Afghan writers and translators joined us at ...

September 16, 2024

The Afghanistan Society, London

The Afghanistan Society, London

The Afghanistan Society held an event with Afghan food, music, and a talk with writer Batool Haidari, poet and ...

January 25, 2024

Rising After the Fall & A Fistful of Moonlight, Stanfords, London

Rising After the Fall & A Fistful of Moonlight, Stanfords, London

To mark the publication of Rising After the Fall, Afghan Women Share Their Stories (Scholastic, 2023) and A ...

November 14, 2023

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Goethe Institut im Exil, Berlin

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Goethe Institut im Exil, Berlin

The Goethe-Institut in Exile dedicated the second half of 2023 to Afghanistan’s cultural scene and to giving ...

July 2, 2023

Afghanistan’s unheard voices: Stories of resilience, Bradford Literature Festival

Afghanistan’s unheard voices: Stories of resilience, Bradford Literature Festival

Award-winning journalist and author Christina Lamb, campaigner Rabia Nasimi, and poet and translator Parwana ...

July 1, 2023

German Cultural Sponsorship Prize, Deutschen Kulturförderpreis 22-23

German Cultural Sponsorship Prize, Deutschen Kulturförderpreis 22-23

Untold Narratives’ partner, KfW Stiftung, was awarded the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft – ...

June 1, 2023

Responsibilities in artistic freedoms, 9th World Summit on Arts and Culture – IFACCA, Sweden

Responsibilities in artistic freedoms, 9th World Summit on Arts and Culture – IFACCA, Sweden

Lucy Hannah, Untold Narratives’ director and Masoma, contributor to My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird (MacLehose Press, ...

May 2, 2023

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Stroud Book Festival

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Stroud Book Festival

To discuss My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird (MacLehose Press, 2022) and the two years of collaboration with women in ...

November 5, 2022

New voices of Afghan women writers, Villa 102, Frankfurt

New voices of Afghan women writers, Villa 102, Frankfurt

Writers Batool Haidari, Naeema, and Marie Bamyani, and Untold Narratives’ director Lucy ...

October 17, 2022

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Birmingham Literature Festival

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Birmingham Literature Festival

Untold Narratives’ director Lucy Hannah and poet and translator Parwana Fayyaz were on stage to talk about My Pen ...

October 8, 2022

Gothenburg BookFair, Sweden

Gothenburg BookFair, Sweden

The director of Untold Narratives Lucy Hannah and some of Afghanistan’s leading female poets and journalists, ...

September 25, 2022

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, The Llangwm Literary Festival

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, The Llangwm Literary Festival

Writing coach Philippa Davies spoke to Untold Narratives about the creation of the anthology My Pen Is The Wing of ...

August 13, 2022

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