Meike Ziervogel on her humanitarian and literary drive

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today is a German novelist and publisher who's had a remarkable literary and humanitarian journey.

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  Born in Kiel,

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  she grew up in Schleswig-Holstein and Hessen before moving to London in the 1980s to study Arabic language and literature at SOAS.

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  After graduating,

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  she worked as a journalist with Reuters in London and Agence France-Presse in Paris.

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  She's written five acclaimed novels, exploring themes such as family dynamics, memory and reality.

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  But beyond her writing,

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  she's also known as the founder of the award-winning independent publishing house Pireni Press,

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  a name many literary fiction lovers will know for its beautifully translated novellas from around the world.

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  Her latest work, Shams, draws directly from her involvement with the Alsama Project in Lebanon,

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  a groundbreaking education initiative for refugee teenagers determined to escape cycles of child marriage and labour.

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  The novel offers a candid and compelling look into the lives of young refugees in one of the world's oldest camps,

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  Shatila.

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  Micah Zwergel, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you, Georgina.

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  We've known each other for a long, long time.

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  I haven't seen you for ages.

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  And it's really lovely to see you back here because,

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