In residence: Elizabeth Chakrabarty

22.05.2023
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Elizabeth chakrabarty

Dr Elizabeth Chakrabarty is an interdisciplinary writer using creative and critical writing as well as performance to explore themes of race, gender and sexuality. She was Passa Porta’s author in residence for the month of April, during which she worked on her third literary crime novel. It is partly set in Brussels. In this portrait by Sarah Baur, tells us more about her writing process for Lessons in Love and Other Crimes, what’s great about crime fiction, and what Brussels’ historic buildings evoke to her.

 
picture © jason keith
22.05.2023