Sulaiman Addonia on The Seers

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Thursday 12 November · 19:00

We are thrilled to welcome Sulaiman Addonia, author of one of this shop’s favourite books, bestsellers and book club pick – The Seers!

The Seers follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the

sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.  

Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British writer and the author of three previous novels, The Consequences of Love (2008), Silence is My Mother Tongue (2018) as well as The Seers (2024). Sulaiman lives in Brussels, where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile. In 2022 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  

Lubi Barre is a writer and curator born in Paris and based in Hamburg. She is the founder of the independent reading series Sprachlos and FRAMED, as well as of Davenport Books, Hamburg's first English language cultural space and bookshop.

Author photo: Prototype Publishing.

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