Frances Pinter

Frances Pinter is a publisher with a passionate interest in human rights. Her most recent projects have included being the founding publisher of Bloomsbury Academic and she’s now about to launch a new community interest company called Knowledge Unlatched. She holds visiting fellowships at the London School of Economics and the Big innovation Centre in London. She is a trustee of REDRESS and also a trustee of the theatre company Ice & Fire.

Solitude and dream: literature post-9/11

Iraqi novelist Haifa Zangana survived torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1970s and was subsequently forced into exile in London. So even though she was by then observing from a distance, Zangana’s fiction was not unaffected by what she calls the “mayhem and destruction” brought to Iraq b

By Frances Pinter and Haifa Zanaga

/ 19 Jun 2012