Farah Edwards Khan, born in Mumbai in 1974, grew up in the central Indian city of Bhopal. Descended from a line of progressive Muslim women rulers, whose legacies imparted a unique perspective on life in India, Farah’s love of writing developed from a childhood filled with Urdu poetry, the shared stories of a large extended family and the classic literature passed on by her German-Irish teacher. Farah has a teaching B.A. B.Ed, and recently studied on the creative writing programme in Brighton, where she has lived for nearly two decades. Farah’s own stories focus on the lives of ordinary people in India. She is currently writing a book of her life in Bhopal.

Devised by Writing Our Legacy, the programme is part of a wider project seeking to capture people’s stories about coming to or growing up in Sussex and will form the first Hidden Sussex anthology, due to be published in June 2019 and supported by Arts Council England.

Writing Our Legacy is an organisation whose aim is to raise awareness of the contributions of Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) writers, poets, playwrights and authors born, living or connected to Sussex and the South East.

Date: Sunday 18 November 2018, 11:00 – 13:00 GMT
Location: Crawley Museum, 103 High Street, Crawley RH10 1DD
Cost: £5.98

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