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"It’s fun not just to have different forms, but also to have different languages [...] The way they sound, the way they whisper in your ear, is like a different language speaking to you every time, customized to that particular world ..." — Bothayna Al-Essa minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in … https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/literature-is-a-dance-around-silence-an-attempt-to-get-closer-to-what-we-are-not-saying-a-conversation-with-bothayna-al-essa-erik-noonan/