Litteratur På Blå

Litteratur på Blå, in association with the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) at UiO welcomes you to a conversation on future histories, science fiction, and the fantastic, in the Middle East and South Asia, with authors Nael Eltoukhy, Samit Basu, and N. İpek Gökdel, moderated by Teresa Pepe. Nael Eltoukhy is an Egyptian novelist, essayist, journalist and translator of Hebrew literature into Arabic, who currently lives in Berlin. He has published two novellas and three novels in Arabic. The English translation of his second novel, Women of Karantina (AUC Press, 2014), was longlisted for the fiction prize of the 2015 FT/ Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards. His most recent novel, Out of the Gutter was published in Arabic in 2018. Samit Basu is the acclaimed author of several fantasy and SF novels, including the Gameworld trilogy (2003-07) and the Turbulence duology (2010-13). He is also the co-director/writer of House Arrest (Netflix, winter 2019), a columnist, comics writer an