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Refugees from seven generations have come together to recreate a photograph of the signing of the UN refugee convention to mark the agreement’s 70th anniversary.
The gathering celebrates decades of the UK granting sanctuary to people fleeing for their lives – but also warns that the nation’s duty towards refugees must continue into the future.
The photo, created by coalition campaign Together With Refugees, brings together refugees from a range of conflicts including the Hungarian uprising, Ugandan Asians who fled Idi Amin’s regime and the ethnic cleansing of the Balkans war. In the place of the UN document, they signed an orange heart, a symbol of support for refugees.
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“The book is frightening – reading it, you feel you are being hypnotised,” says Hughes-Hallett, Chair of judges, at the Booker International Prize 2021. “Your emotions are all jangled up, your mind is being opened to new thoughts. It is an extraordinary piece of narrative, very powerful, very compelling. The protagonist is accused of sorcery and all of us, we judges, did feel this book had somehow put a spell on us. It is that hypnotically compelling.”
Explaining further in an interview with the BBC, Hughes-Hallett added, David Diop’s “At Night All Blood Is Black” is “a story about war, but also about love, the comradeship of those young men who fight together and the extraordinarily intense relationships that are formed by people who are risking death alongside each other. It is also a story about language – the protagonist does not speak much French, so it is a story written in French