Claire Armitstead
Associate Editor, Culture at The Guardian
Former Guardian writer/editor. Now at large. Editor of Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City.
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Sep 16, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Claire Armitstead
Teresa Margolles is standing in a warehouse on the Thames estuary, surrounded by large boxes marked “Frágil”. They have come from Mexico, holding the face masks of 370 transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people. Cast in white plaster, each bears traces of the person on whom it was moulded: a bright smear of lipstick here, a false eyelash there; even, in one case, half an eyebrow. Each has a number and a name – Leila, Milla, Maga, Bruno.
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Sep 9, 2024 |
freitag.de | Claire Armitstead
In Elif Shafaks aktuellem Roman steigt und fällt ein einzelner Regentropfen im Laufe der Jahrtausende. In Ninive, im siebten Jahrhundert v. Chr., landet er auf dem Skalp von Ashurbanipal, einem König, dessen Besessenheit vom Bau einer großen Bibliothek das mesopotamische Gilgamesch-Epos vor seiner Zerstörung wegen Gotteslästerung rettet. Im Konstantinopel des 19.
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Aug 18, 2024 |
en.aravot.am | Claire Armitstead
By Claire ArmitsteadLONDON (The Guardian) — In Elif Shafak’s latest novel, a single raindrop rises and falls through millennia. In Nineveh, in the seventh century BC, it lands on the scalp of Ashurbanipal, a king whose obsession with building a great library saves the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh from destruction for blasphemy; in 19th-century Constantinople, it lands on Arthur, who has just arrived on an official mission to find a missing section of the epic, depicting a pre-biblical flood.
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Aug 15, 2024 |
mirrorspectator.com | Claire Armitstead
When she was 10, life suddenly became more challenging. Her mother graduated with multiple languages, landed a job with the foreign ministry – and her first posting was Spain. “It was a huge culture shock for me to be zoomed into this very international, posh school in the middle of Madrid, where I was the only Turkish student,” Shafak recalls. “I had to learn Spanish very fast. I had to learn English very fast, and I really cherished that experience.
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Aug 7, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Claire Armitstead
For many years, says Moin Hussain, he had a dream of making a film set in a motorway service station. It would be science fiction, “because I’ve always felt that they were like spaceships; these strange lit-up spaces that are all isolated and synthetic, surrounded by darkness.
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