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What does resistance mean in a world with a climate of hate and fear? For many, humanity is resilience, and speaking truth—not just to power—is subversion. Talking about language as resistance, Ananke Literature Festival’s guest speaker Varsha Tiwary shares her thoughts—a teaser leading up to the main digital event...
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Ananke, the Global South’s celebrated media and development platform, announced the speaker lineup and collaborators for the seventh edition of its annual festival, now rebranded as the Ananke Literature Festival. Taking place fully online under the theme Fault Lines: An Unmasking, the festival brings together some of the most...
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“There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjuring spirits from the past and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Firekeepers. And in West Africa…...
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This interview has been previously published in Ananke’s Special Edition “Voices 2026” Sinan Antoon is an acclaimed Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. Born and raised in Baghdad, he moved to the United States following the 1991 Gulf War, eventually earning a doctorate in Arabic Literature from Harvard in...
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Editorial Note: Republished from the original AnankeWLF site. Stay tuned for our new website and upcoming details on the Ananke Literature Festival. Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in Paris since 1978. She studied theatre, philosophy, dance, music, and internal martial arts. An actress...
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Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations, and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric of lyricism that makes up Knotted Grief. More than a book...
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The car crash in a Paris tunnel. The fallout. The updates. I remember only Cartoon Network being unaffected. I sat in my pyjamas with a bowl of Shreddies and watched Cow and Chicken. Gran had just had the carpets washed, so when the second plane hit I was removing...
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Dubai, UAE: Dubai-based publisher, The Dreamwork Collective, has launched a powerful new novel confronting the complexities of adult friendship against the backdrop of childhood trauma. Written by acclaimed author, Safinah Danish Elahi, Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light, explores how the past can continue to shape lives, long after relationships...
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There is, at the heart of The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen (Red River Press, 2026), a trembling proposition: that inheritance is not land or memory, but a rehearsed, enforced, and, occasionally, resisted script. In this slender yet resonant novella, Salini Vineeth conjures a world where myth...
What does resistance mean in a world with a climate of hate and fear? For many, humanity is resilience, and speaking truth—not just to power—is subversion. Talking about language as resistance, Ananke Literature Festival’s guest speaker Varsha Tiwary shares her thoughts—a teaser leading up to the main digital event...
Ananke, the Global South’s celebrated media and development platform, announced the speaker lineup and collaborators for the seventh edition of its annual festival, now rebranded as the Ananke Literature Festival. Taking place fully online under the theme Fault Lines: An Unmasking, the festival brings together some of the most...
“There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjuring spirits from the past and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Firekeepers. And in West Africa…...
This interview has been previously published in Ananke’s Special Edition “Voices 2026” Sinan Antoon is an acclaimed Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. Born and raised in Baghdad, he moved to the United States following the 1991 Gulf War, eventually earning a doctorate in Arabic Literature from Harvard in...
Editorial Note: Republished from the original AnankeWLF site. Stay tuned for our new website and upcoming details on the Ananke Literature Festival. Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in Paris since 1978. She studied theatre, philosophy, dance, music, and internal martial arts. An actress...
Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations, and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric of lyricism that makes up Knotted Grief. More than a book...
The car crash in a Paris tunnel. The fallout. The updates. I remember only Cartoon Network being unaffected. I sat in my pyjamas with a bowl of Shreddies and watched Cow and Chicken. Gran had just had the carpets washed, so when the second plane hit I was removing...
Dubai, UAE: Dubai-based publisher, The Dreamwork Collective, has launched a powerful new novel confronting the complexities of adult friendship against the backdrop of childhood trauma. Written by acclaimed author, Safinah Danish Elahi, Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light, explores how the past can continue to shape lives, long after relationships...
There is, at the heart of The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen (Red River Press, 2026), a trembling proposition: that inheritance is not land or memory, but a rehearsed, enforced, and, occasionally, resisted script. In this slender yet resonant novella, Salini Vineeth conjures a world where myth...
