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Lucy Popescu

Contributor

Lucy Popescu

Lucy Popescu is the co-editor of the PEN anthology Another Sky (Profile Books). Her latest book, The Good Tourist (Arcadia Books) is about human rights and ethical travel. She writes a monthly column about persecuted writers in Literary Review and her book reviews have appeared in Tribune Magazine and the Independent. She also writes the occasional arts blog for the Guardian. Her own blog can be read at: http://lucypopescu.wordpress.com/

Articles by Lucy Popescu

In The Grandmothers’ Archipelago: An Interview with Sjón
By Lucy Popescu
Sjón was born in Reykjavik in 1962. Poet, novelist and playwright, he has received numerous literary awards, including the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize for The Blue Fox. He was also…
An Interview with Matthias Politycki, Modern German Romantic
By Lucy Popescu
Continuing her coverage of the European Literature Days festival. Lucy Popescu speaks to acclaimed German poet and novelist Matthias Politycki.   Matthias Politycki, born in 1955, has published over…
A Dispatch from European Literature Days
By Lucy Popescu
I’ve just returned from the tiny town of Spitz on the River Danube in Austria’s picturesque wine-growing region of Wachau. I was attending the European Literature Days festival, organized…