Tales of Internment – Sonia Lambert

Nationwide arts festival celebrating refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British cultureMarch 2020 marked the official end of the festival, but also the beginning of a longer-term commitment to celebrating the impact of this remarkable generation of émigrés under the Insiders/Outsiders umbrella

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Sonia will discuss the influence on her own writing of some of the accounts written by Jewish refugees interned by the British in 1940

The books she will mention include Never Mind Mr. Lom by Alfred Lomnitz, A Tale of Internment by Livia Laurent, Accidental Journey by Mark Lynton, and We Are Strangers Here by Ruth Borchard. She will talk about how these stories inspired her own novel, Sea Air, as well as some of their resonances with the present day. She will describe the process of researching her novel, and the reasons for her interest in this subject. Sonia Lambert is a writer, journalist and teacher. Her first novel Three Mothers was published by Piatkus (Little, Brown) in 2008, and she has written for BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and has recently completed a PhD on the subject of refugees to Britain during WW2 at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also a volunteer at the Refugee Council. This event is held in partnership with <a href="https://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jewish Renaissance </a>magazine.Image: Women Internees begin their journey to the Isle of Man, Courtesy of IWMFor details of other events in this series, click <a href="https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/events/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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