Gazmend Kapllani will be speaking about his memoir, A Short Border Handbook, with Christopher de Bellaingue at The Edinburgh International Book Festival, Charlotte Square Gardens, on Sunday 30th August 2009 at 11.00am.
An exhilarating and blackly funny exploration of migration and borders from an Albanian who grew up in Hoxha’s madhouse, longing to cross to Greece, only to find another seam of absurdities and disappointments on his eventual arrival.
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Gazmend Kapllani was born in 1967 in Lusnia, Albania. In January 1991 he crossed the border into Greece on foot. He now writes a twice-weekly column for Ta Nea, Greece’s biggest daily newspaper.