Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War with Sarah Watling | GLADFEST 2023
Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War with Sarah Watling
Friday 8th September, 5.30-6.30pm
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Sarah Watling’s new book asks questions particularly appropriate to the here and now: when is it right to take a side? What might it take for you to step forward? How would you know that moment had come?
Tomorrow Perhaps the Future follows in the feet of those who felt called to Spain in the 1930s, to participate in what they identified as a historic fight for freedom. In the UK perhaps the best-known account is George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, but there were many others who wrote what they saw. Sarah’s book follows a handful of extraordinary outsiders – journalist Martha Gellhorn, African American nurse Salaria Kea, as well as writers and poets like Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jessica Mitford and Nancy Cunard – as they tried to live out their lives with courage and conviction.
The war posed challenges to the literary community in the 1930s and Sarah will be discussing this debate and talking particularly about Virginia Woolf, the one subject of her book who did not travel to Spain, and the ways her life and work were changed by the war.
Sarah Watling was the 2016 winner of the Tony Lothian Prize and a 2020 Silvers Grant recipient. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of London. Her biography of the four Olivier sisters, Noble Savages, was published in 2019. It has been translated into Dutch and is forthcoming in German. Her next book, about the Spanish Civil War, is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape and Knopf.
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