Essay
Shatila Stories: creativity in a refugee camp
A publisher visited the Shatila refugee camp to teach a writing workshop. Here is who she encountered.
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Meike Ziervogel is a writer and publisher. She grew up in northern Germany and came to London in 1986 to study Arabic language and literature. In 2008 she founded Peirene Press, an award-winning independent publishing house, specialising in translated literature and commissioned fiction. Meike’s own novels are published in the UK by Salt.