Claire Polders

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    What I Learn from Reading 

    I’m reading stories this week for the American Library of Paris’s Young Author Fiction Festival. It’s the fourth time I’m a judge for this writing contest. From twenty-six short stories by authors aged eleven to twelve, I am to select…

  • End of the World House
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    End of the World House

    What lines of communication might reveal themselves to us when the world comes to an end? How will we navigate our alternative lives if such lives are rendered possible? Can intimacies survive a separation in time and space? Such were…

  • Teotitlán del Valle Carpet
    Wander, Wonder, Write

    Weavers of Teotitlán del Valle

    Josefina Méndez López is one of the master weavers of Teotitlán del Valle, a Mexican pueblo famous for its woolen carpets with Zapotec designs.

  • The Cave of My Unconscious
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    The Cave of My Unconscious

    In my unconscious exists a cave where I often hide out. The cave has been there forever, but I only recently brought a detailed image back with me when I woke. 

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    Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us

    Mundell is a master of the darkly funny and tenderly magical, and this collection is a triumph of female empowerment.

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    Chouette

    A book I recently fell in love with is Chouette by Claire Oshetsky. It’s a feminist fable about motherhood, neurodiversity, and society’s harrowing straight jacket. 

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About Me

  • ‣ Born in: Gouda, the Netherlands
  • ‣ Currently in: South Korea
  • ‣ Arrived from: Vietnam
  • ‣ Next destination: Japan
  • ‣ Writing online since: 2005
  • ‣ Novels Published: 5
  • ‣ Current projects: a memoir on elder abuse, a multi-generational novel about the dark Dutch colonial past, and two short prose collections

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