Indignity: A Life Reimagined” charts Lea Ypi’s attempts to locate information about her grandmother, Leman Ypi, in the ...
What exactly does it mean to be free? “Freedom” was the mantra of the Cold War, at least on the Western side of the Iron Curtain. In the American mind, it is most often associated with the freedoms ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. To reach the old villa restaurant where we are to have lunch, my guest takes me along a beach fringing her childhood ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Have you seen your grandmother has gone viral on Albanian Facebook?” a relative texted me. “Everyone is talking ...
This weekend, FT Weekend editor Alec Russell brings us to Albania for Lunch with the FT. He sits down with writer Lea Ypi, whose memoir ‘Free’ documents her childhood there, both under communism and ...
Lea Ypi, a politics professor at the London School of Economics, wanted to write a thoughtful book about concepts of freedom. She succeeded, quite brilliantly, although by means other than she had ...
Lea Ypi has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Ondaatje Prize. The Albanian author picked up a £10,000 prize for her 2021 novel Free, a coming-of-age memoir set amid ...
The theatre writer who sparked fury after claiming a lecture by a female academic inspired a sleazy trip to a massage parlour defended his actions today, telling MailOnline: 'I don't feel like much of ...
This weekend, FT Weekend editor Alec Russell brings us to Albania for Lunch with the FT. He sits down with writer Lea Ypi, whose memoir ‘Free’ documents her childhood there, both under communism and ...