Join authors Jordan Salama, winner of this year’s Peter Gilbert Prize, awarded by the Woolf Institute for his piece published in Jewish Renaissance magazine, and Eduardo Halfon for a conversation with literary translator Daniel Hahn about the interweaving of family, memory and identity across generations. Salama traces his Arab-Jewish heritage from Syria and Iraq to Argentina, uncovering lost family stories in Stranger in the Desert. Halfon, in Tarantula, reflects on the afterlives of the Holocaust in Guatemala, exploring how literature illuminates the complex legacies of migration, memory and belonging
