Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan edited by Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega hardie grant Dana Kavelina

Dana Kavelina

Through her last three documentary books – one about terrorism in Beslan

Drawing on pioneering fieldwork

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The venue was the canteen block of the Red Hammer Cement Works

Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan edited by Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega hardie grant Dana KavelinaDiverse in form and style, Amanat gathers 13 female Kazakhstani voices, revealing the lives, stories, and histories of a nation over the past 30 years. Through the 24 stories translated from Kazakh and Russian the collection explores nostalgia, politics and change, tracing struggles, joys and losses. A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world The 24 stories in Amanat, translated