Leïla Slimani is a bestselling author, the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, French President Macron's former personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture, and chair of the jury for the 2023 International Booker Prize. She joins us to discuss her newest novel, I’ll Take the Fire, the final book in her trilogy based on her family’s roots in revolutionary Morocco. In it, she weaves the story of a young Arab woman on a quest for sexual and political freedom against the backdrop of era defining events like the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11.

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