Selma Dabbagh

British Palestinian writer and author of novels

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Return to Festivals and Retreats

Santa Maddalena Writers’ Retreat, Florence

Nearly three weeks at this wonderful place  enabled me to finish the draft of my novel, Other States, Other Lives. I went back a fortnight later to attend the connected Festival, that celebrates literature translated into Italian, the Premerio Gregor Von Rezzori.

At Santa Maddalena I reviewed Kamila Shamsie’s novel A God in Every Stone for Wasafiri, which was also written at the Retreat.

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My thoughts on being at Santa Maddalena.

A photo of me in situ with pugs:

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