Birmingham, the city that raised me: Kit de Waal & Osman Yousefzada

Schedule

Fri Oct 07 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Birmingham Rep | Birmingham, EN

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Two memoirs set in the same part of Birmingham: geographically, very close – but culturally, miles apart.
Kit de Waal grew up to a white Irish mother and Black Caribbean father in 1960s Springfield, South Birmingham, with 4 siblings, not enough
food and huge expectations imposed by her Jehovah’s Witness mother. Not 3 miles away, 15 years later, Osman Yousefzada grew up in a
closed-off Pakistani immigrant community where everyone knew his and his family’s business and he and his siblings – especially
his sisters – were under permanent scrutiny.
Kit and Osman join us at Birmingham Literature Festival in the year both their memoirs have been published to talk about their childhoods in the city, their families, and how that set them on the track to stride out and break with expectations to forge their own careers and lives.
Chaired by Paul McVeigh
Sponsored by Newman University
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Where is it happening?

Birmingham Rep, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Birmingham Literature Festival

Host or Publisher Birmingham Literature Festival

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