As a lost child in Turkey I found refuge on an imaginary mountain
Elif Shafak
When I felt misplaced in my new world, the legends of Mount Qaf gave me a place of endless possibilities and uncensored words, says novelist Elif Shafak
In Reykjavik I found I couldn’t write. But then I started to notice small things
Sarah Moss
By December, with only three official hours of daylight, I had learned to see modulations of light unnoticeable further south, says the novelist Sarah Moss
Near Tel Aviv beach in 1939, an almost mythical struggle took place between a desperate refugee and his saviour, says Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen