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Vaddey Ratner

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Genocide survivor. Refugee. NYTimes bestselling author. "Ratner is a fearless writer." —The Guardian 📕IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYAN 📕MUSIC OF THE GHOSTS (For international readers: my work is translated into 20 languages)

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Everything about this schoolgirl would be suspect today, and yet she was warmly welcomed to America as a refugee forty-five years ago. This little girl is me.

01.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.

"I think of memory as finite. It’s personal. Once you’re gone, that memory goes with you. Myth, by contrast, lives beyond you."

Today in PEN Transmissions, Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.

#writing #literature #art

29.01.2026 18:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A regime can silence people. It can make them disappear. But their story will be heard. It will find a way, a voice—always. I know because once almost my entire family was taken away from me. Today their story endures and is remembered in many other languages besides my own.

21.04.2025 18:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hello Bluesky. Just a speck here in the firmament 🙂

18.11.2024 21:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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