Rachida Lamrabet: 'Fiction gives me the opportunity to introduce another perspective'
In this Winter season we've already heard from Helga Schubert, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George. Joanna Kavenna will be rounding off the series next time, but right here and now we welcome Rachida Lamrabet and her short story Two Girls on Bicycles, translated by Johanna McCalmont.
Lamrabet recalls how this story was set in motion by a chance encounter with an old friend, which brought back memories of pedal-powered escapades while she was a teenager.
"Everyone had a bike," she remembers. "If you didn't have a bike you'd steal a bike…"
Her character decides to leave her childhood behind, a…
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