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Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore is a writer and broadcast journalist. Her essay ‘Touch’, for Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling, won a 2021 Pushcart Prize, and has been translated into Chinese for the Beijing-based literary magazine Dan Du. She is currently at work on a novel.

Photograph © Chris Vile

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Art & Photography | Issue 154

Art & Photography | Issue 154

Al-Birr Islamic Trust Morgue, Greenwich Islamic Centre, April 2020

Gus Palmer & Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

‘Palmer’s portraits of Kafil Ahmed sit alongside those of other people risking their lives to take care of others.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Diary of a London Lockdown

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

‘The coronavirus seemed to demand immediate responses to the questions we’d been struggling with for years.’

In Conversation | Issue 146

In Conversation | Issue 146

In Conversation

Pallavi Aiyar & Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

‘There’s a lot I’ve written to you that I’ve never said to anyone else before simply because of how much you and I share.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146

Touch

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

‘Touch had its own language, and the rules were the opposite of the ones I knew at home.’