Writing biography and walking in other people’s shoes | Jasmine Donahaye | TEDxAberystwyth скачать в хорошем качестве

Writing biography and walking in other people’s shoes | Jasmine Donahaye | TEDxAberystwyth

Author Jasmine Donahaye asks whether biography, like all writing, is a kind of theft, and explores how we might sympathetically imagine the lives of those different from ourselves without committing acts of appropriation. asmine Donahaye’s publications include narrative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. Her memoir, Losing Israel (2015), won the non-fiction category of Wales Book of the Year, and her story ‘Theft’ was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize. Before taking up her post at Swansea University, she worked for many years in the publishing sector and as Publishing Grants Officer at the Welsh Books Council, and this background in publishing closely informs her teaching of creative writing. Her research interests include the natural world, identity, Jewish studies, Welsh culture and Israel-Palestine, and she would welcome enquiries about Creative Writing PhD supervision that pertain to any of these areas and beyond. She was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx