‘When the typed draft is ready I print it out onto long sheets (2 m) and hang the whole novel on a wall.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Hamid Ismailov.

Antony Huen interviews George Szirtes for Wasafiri 99. Read an extract.

She spoke to Wasafiri about her writing mantra, winning prizes, and that ‘other’ box which renders people invisible.

Last month, Birmingham played host to its first decolonial literature festival, ‘Literature Must Fall’, brainchild of writer and academic Kavita Bhanot.

The fifteen-strong shortlist for the tenth anniversary of the prize features writers from nine countries and five continents.

The 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize winner spoke to Wasafiri about literary prize cultures, stage vs page poetry, and his vision for the ‘hearing world’.