In the fourth episode of The Empty Chair, PEN SA board member Bongani Kona and writer, teacher and researcher Hedley Twidle revisit The Plague by Albert Camus (translated into English from the original French, La Peste). They discuss  the novel's contemporary resonance and what illness does to one's  experience of the world. This episode pays tribute to Osman Kavala, a  publisher, civil rights activist and philanthropist detained in Turkey.

In the fourth episode of The Empty Chair, PEN SA board member Bongani Kona and writer, teacher and researcher Hedley Twidle revisit The Plague by Albert Camus (translated into English from the original French, La Peste). They discuss the novel's contemporary resonance and what illness does to one's experience of the world. This episode pays tribute to Osman Kavala, a publisher, civil rights activist and philanthropist detained in Turkey.

In the fourth episode of The Empty Chair, PEN SA board member Bongani Kona and writer, teacher and researcher Hedley Twidle revisit The Plague by Albert Camus (translated into English from the original French, La Peste). They discuss &nbsp;the novel's contemporary resonance and what illness does to one's &nbsp;experience of the world. This episode pays tribute to Osman Kavala, a &nbsp;publisher, civil rights activist and philanthropist detained in Turkey.

Reading The Plague

In The Empty Chair Podcast: A Transatlantic Conversation, PEN South Africa hosts authors, academics and activists based in South Africa and the USA. The podcast focuses on books, writing, social justice, freedom of expression, shared histories and possible futures. Each of our episodes is dedicated to an imprisoned writer or a writer who has been harassed by the state.

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Reading The Plague

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