Interview with Lauri Kubuitsile, author of The Scattering

In this episode of Inside Publishing, Gemma interviews Lauri Kubuitsile, author of The Scattering. We talk about her experiences as an author who has worked with many publishers, her views on genres as a marketing tool and why she doesn’t have a literary agent. Her historical novel, The Scattering explores the lives of two women and their experiences of two historical atrocities in Southern Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century: the Herero and Nama genocide, and the Anglo-Boer war. Now published in the UK by DAS Editions, Lauri shares why she was compelled to write this story and how she conducted her research when the historical record is so fragmentary. 

Lauri's book: The Scattering https://www.daseditions.com/books/the-scattering

DAS Editions

Website: www.daseditions.com

Instagram: @daseditions

Books mentioned

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

Episode transcript: 

https://otter.ai/u/6npnuhI7u8cUsnr7mqVLc7y9oSk?utm_source=copy_url

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