Contributor

Laila Wadia

Contributor

Laila Wadia

India

Lily-Amber Laila Wadia is a novelist, playwright and poet, born in India and living in Italy where she works at the University of Trieste. Her publications include: Il burattinaio e altre storie extra-italiane (Cosmo Iannone, 2004); Pecore Nere (AAVV....

Laterza, 2005); Amiche per la pelle (Edizioni E/O, 2007), which was adapted for the screen in 2015 as Babylon Sisters; Come diventare italiani in 24 ore (Barbera, 2010); and Se tutte le donne (Barbera, 2012).

Listening to Silence

By Laila Wadia

“I gallop in English, I am a towering dervish in Urdu, and Hindi is my Kama Sutra. I am still on all fours in Italian.”

Translated from Italian by Sole Anatrone

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Laila Wadia

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Articles by Laila Wadia

Listening to Silence