The author picked up £10,000 prize for her 2021 novel Free, a coming of age memoir set amid political upheaval. Albanian author Lea Ypi was named winner of the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize (Adrian ...

What exactly does it mean to be free? “Freedom” was the mantra of the Cold War, at least on the Western side of the Iron Curtain. In the American mind, it is most often associated with the freedoms ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. To reach the old villa restaurant where we are to have lunch, my guest takes me along a beach fringing her childhood ...

In the political theorist’s genre-bending book on Albania and historical memory, Indignity, she interrogates how much one family can be implicated in a country’s becoming. The narrator of Lea Ypi’s ...

Lea Ypi is chatting to me from Delhi, where it’s 10 at night and she’s just opened a beer: but neither the lateness of the hour nor the heat - not to mention the exhaustion of a month combining a ...

Lea Ypi, a politics professor at the London School of Economics, wanted to write a thoughtful book about concepts of freedom. She succeeded, quite brilliantly, although by means other than she had ...

She believed her parents loved Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. But once Albania’s communist system collapsed, Lea Ypi began to realise nothing was as it seemed … Read an extract from Lea Ypi’s memoir, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Have you seen your grandmother has gone viral on Albanian Facebook?” a relative texted me. “Everyone is talking ...

The Albanian academic describes coming of age at a turning point in history, and the family secrets exposed in its aftermath One wet afternoon in December 1990, little Lea Ypi ran across Tirana to the ...