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Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly is a Canadianauthor of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Her book, The Lizrad’s Cage won the Orange Broadband Prize for new fiction in 2007 and she has recently published her memoirs of her experiences in Burma, Burmese Lessons: A true love story (Nan A. Talese, 2010).


Articles by Karen Connelly

Free from crooked things

Buddhism is fatalistic, deeply misogynist and riven with superstition. And yet, argues Karen Connelly, it also inspires resistance to tyranny and the fight for freedom

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