Giving voice to victims - Damian Barr and Fiona Snyckers talk to Francois Smith. Presented by Jonathan Ball Publishers and PanMacmillan.

In his sensational novel, You Will Be Safe Here, partly based on the death in 2011 of 15-year-old Raymond Buys in a so-called right-wing youth resilience camp, the Scot Damian Barr attempts to give voice to the victims of gender violence through his principle character, the “moffie” boy Willem Brandt. In Lacuna, Fiona Snyckers turns Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee’s dramatic novel Disgrace on its head when Lucy Lurie, the victim of a cruel rape, says: “Enough. I am going to tell my own story as I experienced it.” Francois Smith (Kamphoer/ The Camp Whore) leads the discussion.

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