Refugee Tales
as told to Ali Smith, Patience Agbabi, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many others
Recommendations from our site
“Refugee Tales is particularly interesting because it combines literature and activism. It shows a really idiosyncratic take on the Canterbury Tales. This group of people have recreated the Canterbury pilgrimage, and walked through the land as a group of refugees and writers. Recent refugees told their stories, and for each refugee, a writer then wrote up a version of that story.” Read more...
The Canterbury Tales: A Reading List
Marion Turner, Biographer
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