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Your Favourites' Favourites: Yumna Kassab and Raaza Jamshed

Coming-of-age story amid political turmoil and looming threat of violence

Raaza Jamshed (Photo credit Elena Tanska)
Yumna Kassab (Photo credit Joy M Lai)
Friday 22 May 2026
5-5.55pm
Event Code: 69
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In Your Favourites’ Favourites, our most-loved writers introduce one of their favourite authors.

Former Parramatta Laureate in Literature and author of Politica, The Theory of Everything and Goodbye, My Love Yumna Kassab introduces writer and editor Raaza Jamshed and her debut novel, What Kept You?. This powerful work from a new voice in Australian fiction is a poetic, multi-vocal story about a young woman navigating the violence of colonialism, environmental destruction and misogyny.

Hear Yumna and Raaza discuss themes of survival, metamorphosis and forging your own path in the world.
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