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Novelist Tahmima Anam's letter to her unborn child

Novelist Tahmima Anam's letter to her unborn child. Inspired by Oscar Wilde's De Profundis written in Reading Prison in 1897.

Novelist Tahmima Anam’s letter to her unborn child. Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis written in Reading Prison in 1897.

Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Prison between 1895 and 1897, enduring the Separate System, a harsh penal regime designed to eliminate any contact between prisoners. Wilde’s imprisonment led to one of his last great works - De Profundis, an extended letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas written by Wilde in his prison cell.

Tahmima Anam is a British Bangladeshi novelist whose books include A Golden Age and The Good Muslim. 

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Writers from around the world read letters on the theme of separation and imprisonment.

Writers from around the world read letters on the theme of separation and imprisonment, inspired by Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, written in Reading Prison in 1897.

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