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Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic review – inside the mind of a survivor Clare Clark
In 2018, Olivia Sudjic spent two months alone in Brussels. Her debut novel,
Sympathy, had been published to critical acclaim and she hoped to make progress with a second. Instead, she found herself in the grip of an agonising spiral of anxiety and self-doubt, unable to write, unable almost to think. She later wrote about the experience in a long-form essay,
Exposure, a scrupulous examination of the pressures of social media and the personal scrutiny to which she believes female writers are particularly subjected. In that essay Sudjic argues that her periodic episodes of anxiety, while agonising, are necessary to her writing: the writer’s duty, she contends, “is to seek out chaos, or the very thing of which she is most afraid”.
Biography: Sicilian-born, Rome-based Terranova’s latest novel,
Farewell, Ghosts, is her first to be translated into English. In Italy she has also published short-story collections and contributes to
La Repubblica, Il Foglio.
My relationship with keeping a diary dates back to when I was young. My aunt had given me Anne Frank’s diary and I remember that after reading it I was struck: somewhere in the world there had been a child like me who had been denied becoming a writer. I already knew that I wanted to…
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