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Kapka Kassabova on the Balkans, on growing up behind the Iron Curtain, on the inheritance of pain, on writing by water, on alchemistry, on healing -- with TWBC
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Half-way into the first season, welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.
In this edition, I speak with the writer and poet Kapka Kassabova whose body of work on the Balkans becomes even more critical and urgent at this time. TO THE LAKE: A Journey of War and Peace explore the shadowlands of the triple border between Albania, the Republic of North Macedonia and Greece. Her award-winning BORDER, A Journey to the Edge of Europe, focuses on the nexus of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. And Street Without a Name is Kapka’s coming-of-age memoir set in Bulgaria, as the country navigates from Communism through the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond. Beyond seems to be taking on new meaning...
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