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Chris Power talks to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi about her new novel The First Woman, a coming of age story set in the 1970s Uganda. The story follows a young girl Kirabo as she struggles to find out why she was left by her mother, while exploring the role of women and feminism in Ugandan society.

We explore New Dutch Writing with the Rotterdam based short story writer Sanneke Van Hassel and translator Michele Hutchison, who won The International Booker Prize this year for the Dutch novel The Discomfort of Evening alongside its author, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. They discuss a new series of translated chapbooks Verzet ( Resistance) which give English readers a taste of the breadth of new writing from the country.

Historian Sean Williams explores the long relationship between swimming and writing in Switzerland. While Barbara Kingsolver, the award-winning author of books including The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible shares with us the Bo, She鈥檇 Never Lend: Annie Dillard鈥檚 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

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