CANCELLED Lives and Borders

Kapka Kassabova,

the author of Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe,

the WINNER  of

the 2017 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year,

the 2018 British Academy’s sixth Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding,

the 2018 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year,

the 2018 inaugural Highland Book Prize

How do borders shape people’s lives? What is it like to live in a closed society? How can growing up behind the Iron Curtain colour one’s childhood?

Come and join us for a talk with the award-winning author Kapka Kassabova about her journey along the region where Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey meet. She will tell us more about the stories of the people of the border – the people who have something to teach us.

“Once near a border’’, explains Kapka, “it is impossible not to be involved, not to want to exorcise or transgress something. Just by being there, the border is an invitation.’’