In 2018, Olivia Sudjic was the writer in residence at the Brussel’s international house of literature, Passa Porta. In the context of the VUB Off-Campus Week, Passa Porta (International House of Literature) welcomed us for a workshop with Olivia Sudjic. The workshop focused on point of view and on issues of gender and race in literature. Olivia also read from her debut novel Sympathy (2017), which "opens with what must be the most intense description of an Instagram follow request ever committed to print" (Kate Loftus O'Brien for Vice). You can find this passage on the website of Passa Porta.
Olivia Sudjic (London, 1988) is a writer and journalist. Her debut novel Sympathy was published in 2017 and has been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Turkish. During her residence at Passa Porta, she worked on a second novel and an elaborate essay entitled ‘Exposure’, about ‘the fear epidemic, the public and auto-fiction’.
For more information, see:
http://www.oliviasudjic.org/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/26/sympathy-olivia-sudjic-review
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/sympathy-olivia-sudjic-extract
