The Wonderful Words Podcast

A Book Podcast Show, where Waseem Imam Saheb gets to chat to authors from around the world about Life, their Books and their Writing process.

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In this episode Waseem chats to Sue Nyathi about her second novel The Gold Diggers, which covers a plethora of issues ranging from immigration, xenophobia and patriarchy amongst other things.

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In this episode Waseem chats to Meena Kandasamy about her second novel When I Hit You,  an auto-fictitious offering dealing with domestic violence aswell as her approach to the craft of writing. music : “ variatio 1 a 1 clav. “ by Kimiko Ishizaka is licensed under CC BY CC0 1.0 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewonderfulwordspodcast/message

In this episode Waseem chats to Ming-Cheau Lin, author of the memoir: Yellow and Confused. Which deals with her life in South Africa as someone of Taiwanese descent as well as unlearning Prejudices & Food politics. 

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In this episode Waseem chats to Fiona Melrose about how Virginia Woolf inspired her second novel, Johannesburg, as well as about the pressures of writing a south african novel as a white writer.

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In this episode Waseem chats to Dr Barbara Boswell about Violence, the Patriarchy and her first novel Grace! music by  “ variatio 1 a 1 clav. “ by Kimiko Ishizaka is licensed under CC BY CC0 1.0 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewonderfulwordspodcast/message

In Episode 6, Waseem chats to Nedine Moonsamy about Anti-blackness in the indian community, Traditional expectations and her debut novel "The Unfamous Five".

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In episode seven of the show,  Waseem chats to Jamil F Khan about not only his memoir but also his other essays on social politics as well as social media and toll it can take.

Lady Nwadike and Lawrence Mashiyane join waseem in this episode to chat about the contributions to Queer african anthology of erotic fiction, "Exhale", as well as taboos and writing about sex.

In this episode Waseem chats to award winning writer, broadcaster and journalist Damian Barr about the makings of his debut Novel, "You Will Be Safe Here", as well as his writing process.