As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a new series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Ingrid Persaud, writer of “Love After Love”, her first novel published by Faber in 2020. Together, they discuss how winning her first literary prize, the "Commonwealth Short Story Prize", reinforced her vocation as a writer. They also evoke Ingrid Persaud’s choice to write her first book in her native language, Trinidadian English.

Ingrid Persaud, Love after Love, © Ingrid Persaud, 2020. Published by Faber & Faber Ltd. Cover © Faber & Faber.

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© Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

© BBC National Short Story Award.

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Five Dials is a digital literary magazine published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, edited by Craig Taylor.

Michael Anthony, The Year in San Fernando, Hoddor, © Hodder Education, 2021.

Excerpt from "Love after Love" from SEA GRAPES by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1976 by Derek Walcott. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.

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V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, © Picador, 2003.

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Gabriel Bump, Everywhere You Don't Belong, © Workman, 2021.

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