Balsam Karam in conversation with Saskia Vogel

(Supported by the Swedish Arts Council as part of the Stories From Sweden programme)

Balsam Karam’s debut Event Horizon is an earth-shattering read. Through her poetic and alluringly beautiful prose she highlights sisterhood and motherhood, but also deportation, oppression, depravity, revolt, insurgency and torture. Event Horizon is powerfully moral, indignant, rebellious.

Shortlisted for the Katapult Prize 2019.

Event Horizon is a deeply existential and poignant — but also political — novel about oppression, exile, solidarity, trauma and loss. With a completely unique voice Balsam Karam writes about a hopelessness that never resigns, about a young woman’s firm belief in a better world and her refusal to be repressed.

Saturday 25 April 2026

City Library | 3pm | Free