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A Note from Passing Guest: Main Language
A Note from Passing Guest: Main Language

This is an excerpt from my book Passing Guest, where I explain my personal relationship between storytelling and language. Beyond my writing, speaking several languages is a big part of my life. I grew up bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) and at different stages of my life I learnt French, English and Chinese, as well as some Korean and Bahasa Indonesia. My relationship with all these languages shaped my experiences and my life away from my home country. In my novel The Mansion South of Maple Street, I wanted to give languages an important value to the story and the are part of the main character’s relationship with the environment in different ways.

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Media, English, BooksIris Mirlanguage, immigration, identityComment
PRESS RELEASE: Searching New Horizons of Meaning Through Love and our Environment
PRESS RELEASE: Searching New Horizons of Meaning Through Love and our Environment

In this collection of fictional stories, Passing Guest, Iris Mir imagines what the futures of random bystanders on the streets would look like if they had the chance to experience love in a new way; one of compassion and kindness toward others.

With this in mind, Mir writes their dreamed stories honouring their lives, their voices and the reason their hypothetical love-experience would matter to our social fabric. Their imaginary stories become a reminder of the importance of many small human acts of kindness that are integral to our survival and are being eroded as a result of our increasingly fragmented and polarised societies.

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Media, English, BooksIris MirWriting, hope, freedom, identity, loveComment