Nathan Thrall
Anatomy of Occupation
Debate
Journalist and writer Nathan Thrall, awarded Pulitzer Prize winner 2024, talks with the journalist Albert Elfa, correspondent in Jerusalem for six years, about the last decades of the occupation of Palestine and its impact on the lives of the population in the wake of the publication of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.
The starting point of Nathan Thrall's latest book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (published in Spanish by Anagrama and in Catalan by Periscopi, 2024), winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2024 for general nonfiction and recognized as the best book of the year by publications such as The New Yorker, The Economist or The Financial Times, is the serious accident of a school bus carrying Palestinian children on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on February 16, 2012. The chronicle of those events becomes in the hands of the author an analysis of the daily life in the occupied territories of Palestine and the consequences, sometimes fatal, that this situation has on the population living there. Starting from these particular circumstances, Thrall constructs a story that allows us to reflect on the most human and daily dimension of this conflict.
Moderators: Albert Elfa
Participants: Nathan Thrall
