The Longlist with Kaliane Bradley & Dr. Nussaibah Younis

Writers pour out their all to create great books. Years of work and yet most will only sell a few copies of their books. A few go on to be best sellers. An even smaller group are selected to be prize winners.

Join us as we talk with two authors whose debut books have both been longlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction. Pull up a chair as we dig into the journey of writing and the joy of recognition.

Saturday June 21st | 3pm

Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review, among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. The Ministry of Time is her first novel and has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Dr. Nussaibah Younis is a peacebuilding practitioner and a globally recognised expert on contemporary Iraq. For several years, she advised the Iraqi government on proposed programs to de-radicalise women affiliated with ISIS. She studied at Oxford, Durham and Harvard Universities, and has a PhD in International Affairs. Dr Younis was a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, where she directed the Task Force on the Future of Iraq. She has published Op-Eds in the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She was born in the UK to an Iraqi father and a Pakistani mother, and currently lives in London. Fundamentally is her debut novel and has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.