2026-05-03
29 分钟And welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
What does it mean to lose your home?
Not just physically, but politically, morally and emotionally.
Around the world, millions of people are being forced to leave the places they know,
but others experience something stranger.
They remain where they are, yet the country around them begins to feel unfamiliar.
My guest today has spent years thinking about that unsettling condition.
A journalist and novelist in Turkey.
She was once one of the country's best-known political columnists,
but its criticism of the government became increasingly dangerous.
She left the country in 2016 and began rebuilding her life across Europe.
Since then, she 's written widely about democracy,
belonging, and the feeling that many of us are becoming strangers in our own time.
Her books include How to Lose a Country and Together.
Her latest explores what it means to lose and perhaps rebuild the idea of home.
It 's called Nation of Strangers, Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century,
and it 's now been shortlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Nonfiction.
Ajay Tamalkarum, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you, Georgina.