Aimee Nezhukumatathil: World of Wonders

What is it like to love a world that is threatened by extinction? Can writing about nature change the way we experience it in our everyday lives? Watch poet and essayist, Aimee Nezhukumatathil discuss the power of wonder with the EKF director, Violeta Radkova. Joining them for the introduction is Natalie Bakopoulos, author of "Scorpionfish" and "The Green Shore".
Aimee’s latest book, "World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments", is an illustrated collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitant can teach, support, and inspire us. It’s a love letter to our planet and its wondrous creatures. It became a New York Times best-selling book and was chosen as Barnes and Noble’s Book of the Year.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an American poet and essayist whose writing is closely connected to her Filipina and Malayali Indian background and explores themes such as love, loss, and land. She is author of four poetry collections - "Miracle Fruit" (2003), "At the Dive-In Volcano" (2007), "Lucky Fish" (2011), and "Oceanic" (2018). Her poems evoke the natural world, its animals and mud, the beauty and darkness of everyday life, and tell us what it is like to love a world in peril.
This event is part of the 2022 edition of the international literary festival CapitaLiterature, organized by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. The topic of this year’s edition is "Writing to Save the World" or writing in response to the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced, the climate emergency.
The event is organized with the financial support of Sofia Municipality and the National Culture Fund.
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