Archive: Essay

Read Jessie Berry-Porter’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.

‘Language is one of the lines along which my family falls into private subsets.’ Stephanie Sy-Quia reflects on the five languages in her family, learning and un-learning language, and the multilingual environment’s earliest lesson – all through anecdotes from childhood and her experiences growing up across countries and cultures.