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Arundhati Roy and Sarah Perry longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction

Sixteen authors – including Lea Ypi, Lyse Doucet and Barbara Demick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes

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Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi review – love, war and betrayal

Troubled by a photo of her grandmother living it up in Mussolini’s Italy, the author of Free delves into archive and memory to uncover the truth

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‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues

The Albanian author of Free and the Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past

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Italy’s migrant pact with Albania makes no sense. So what’s the real reason Starmer is showing interest?

Britain’s prime minister knows such a plan won’t work. He’s cosying up with Giorgia Meloni for an entirely different reason, says professor in political theory Lea Ypi

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Olaf Scholz: giving young voters hope is best way to win them back from far right

Speaking at a summit in Berlin, the German chancellor said it was necessary to address young people’s anxieties

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Academic hits back at Spectator writer who said he visited sex worker after watching her lecture

Professor Lea Ypi, a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, responded to piece published in The Spectator by Lloyd Evans

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The day my students stopped me in my tracks – and changed how I thought about hope

Teaching the Enlightenment reminded me that the worse the world seems, the harder you have to hold on to your principles, says academic Lea Ypi

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What a Czechoslovakian doll taught me about happiness – and its dark side

As a child in communist Albania, I yearned to play with her. But as soon as she was within reach, I didn’t want her any more, says Lea Ypi, a professor in political theory at the LSE

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Here’s a tortoise I found crossing the Albanian border. It should be that easy for all of us

Meandering across an artificial line that divides humanity, the tortoise had a lot to teach my children – and me, says the LSE professor and author Lea Ypi

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Andrew Pierce 'frothing at the mouth' during heated GMB debate

Susanna Reid was forced to step in as the argument intensified

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GMB clash over migrant crossings as viewers praise guest for slamming 'deluded' comments

Good Morning Britain was hosted by Ed Balls and Susanna Reid with journalist Andrew Pierce and Albanian professor Lea Ypi disagreeing over Home Secretary Suella Braverman

Daily Mirror

We Albanians are just the latest scapegoats for Britain’s failing ideological project

Far from being ‘invaders’, Albanians in Britain are contributing to UK society, says Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at LSE

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Britain is targeting Albanians to excuse policy failures, says country’s PM

Edi Rama urges ministers to ‘stop discriminating’ after Suella Braverman’s ‘Albanian criminals’ comments

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'Free': Chronicle of a childhood in Albania during the fall of communism

Growing up in Albania, our guest had a childhood of two halves. One was lived in plain sight, since she was brought up at school to believe and love the communist doctrine of Albania's Enver Hoxha and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The other half was hidden, as she slowly discovered…

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Gordon Burn prize shortlist announced: jazz icons, true crime and a rogue psychotherapist

Preti Taneja, David Whitehouse, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Margo Jefferson and Lea Ypi are shortlisted for the prize rewarding ‘bold and innovative’ books

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Lea Ypi: ‘Hope is a moral duty’

The Albanian author and academic on what she misses most about her homeland and how a communist childhood steeped in lies sparked her interest in philosophy

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Matt Hancock ‘humbled’ after giving shelter to refugees

In today’s Diary: Hancock on living with Ukranian refugees / Bill Gates says Musk might be good for Twitter / Rayner hearts Lorraine

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Albanian author Lea Ypi named winner of £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize

The author picked up £10,000 prize for her 2021 novel Free, a coming of age memoir set amid political upheaval.

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Academic Lea Ypi wins Ondaatje prize for memoir

Award given for books that evoke the spirit of place goes to work that chronicles the author’s coming-of-age in Albania during the fall of communism

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I grew up in a paranoid dictatorship. Isolating Russia won’t bring Europe peace

Albania’s history teaches that only dialogue and integration end the cycle of war, says Lea Ypi of the LSE

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