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Zamira Rahim

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Journalist, CNN London. Previously writing for The Independent and TIME Magazine.

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · Jun 15

Got to see my fiction in print for the first time, which has been a weirdly emotional experience. You spend five years squinting at something on a Google Doc and it doesn't seem real, until suddenly it very much is.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 10m

First interview with Krasznahorkai after winning the Nobel.

youtu.be/cM7Pwsu2L8s?...

First reactions | László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 | Telephone interview

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 3h

Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...

Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru: The highly educated aspiring writers of New York are looking beyond the English-speaking world for their reading fixes. It must be a sign of the times

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 3h

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 2d

Okay this is brilliant, especially when some places use affordable art to mean "lowest prices at £5k"

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 2d

In which I talk about anxiety as a motivating force, never being considered for the Booker, and an early novel that's become problematic.

Jonathan Coe: ‘I have a fascination with the right’

The author on keeping his liberal instincts in check, his love of breaking the literary fourth wall, and not fitting comfortably into the world

observer.co.uk

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 2d

it would be on brand for her not to have done the reading

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

I actually think Pratchett is quite Tory in the classical sense: suspicious of grand promises, realistic (tho optimistic) about human nature and valuing order.

But... thats not Kemi

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 2d

This is incredible. Please, someone, sit her down for a proper deep dive culture interview, I want to know her detailed thoughts on Discworld and Tiffany Aching.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 3d

Bishop died on this day in 1979. I love that image of her searching after a missing word, the right word, for years. They had one of those literary friendships that, at least when you read about it, went deeper than ego and feathers www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Dear Elizabeth

One poet writes to another.

www.newyorker.com

Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 3d

'Do you still hang your words in air, ten years
unfinished, glued to your notice board with gaps...' (from Robert Lowell's 'Four poems for Elizabeth Bishop')

Have you seen an inchworm crawl on a leaf,
cling to the very end, revolve in air,
feeling for something to reach to something? Do
you still hang your words in air, ten years
unfinished, glued to your notice board, with gaps
or empties for the unimaginable phrase–
unerring Muse who makes the casual perfect?

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 4d

'Ribbons', a poem by Seamus Heaney, is published for the first time.

The poem appears in The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis. The definitive edition of Heaney's poetry is out on 9 October.

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 4d

I only recently watched BB and its spin off Better Call Saul - takes a while to get through but it's utterly worth it. I don't watch a ton of TV but those are beautifully done shows

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 4d

‘“I think Saul Bellow was not a good influence on Martin. Bellow’s prose was a specifically American idiom, and that didn’t sit well on top of an educated English literary voice.”

But what about Money? I ask him.’

I interviewed Ian McEwan about Amis, Barnes, Nabokov, Trump and his new novel:

Ian McEwan: ‘I’ve been following politics for years, and I’ve never felt such anxiety about the chaos, the lack of leadership’

The writer on his futuristic novel What We Can Know, climate change and the alarming lack of self-scepticism in Trump and Putin

www.irishtimes.com

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 4d

I've never seen Love Island (no shade to reality tv, I just never got into it)

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 4d

And I should say, there's an exhibition of her work on at Chris Beetle's Gallery until 25th October www.chrisbeetles.com/exhibition/3...

Chris Beetles Gallery

The Chris Beetles Gallery is one of London's most popular commercial art galleries, specialising in traditional British watercolour, illustration, oil paint

www.chrisbeetles.com

Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 4d

I love Melissa Scott-Miller's London paintings. She's so good at capturing the residential corners of the city, especially those little back gardens, parks, canals and the endless rows of terraces

November Back Garden View 2023, Islington by Melissa Scott-Miller

Start of Autumn, Vincent Terrace Gardens, Islington by Melissa Scott-Miller

View of Selfridges from Balderton Street
Melissa Scott-Miller (born 1959)

A painting of a back garden in Hampstead by Melissa Scott-Miller

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 7d

yes exactly. I am very new to East London but that same corporate soullessness you describe pervades the whole bit around the new West Ham stadium

Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 7d

This is so awful. So sorry Sam.

Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 11d

It's a no brainer from the PR side to avoid them so I completely get why they don't want to play ball, but publications shouldn't waver in the face of it. And they should keep their critics on staff in the meantime!

Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 11d

Actors are fantastic at their job but they are not journalists or critics and the result of them talking to each other for a piece is often so....dull

Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 11d

I loathe the current trend of actors and other stars 'in conversation' with each other as they do press. Get a writer to follow someone around for a couple of days and write a Michael Schulman/Rachel Syme style profile, it's far more compelling read.

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 11d

yes exactly, paying £100 for a chain meal feels like such a rip off

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 11d

may steal this idea for Christmas!

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 22d

Take a moment, and read...

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