A Flat Place was long- and/or shortlisted for nearly every award it was eligible for. It was a book of the year according to The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The New Yorker. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Jhalak Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award. A Flat Place was recommended by Sara Ahmed, who had the following to say about it: “Achingly beautiful, lovingly crafted work, in which stories of violence and memory, colonialism and patriarchy, family and friendship, are as layered as a landscape. A Flat Place reminds us that there is hope in the smallest of gestures.”

In collaboration with Paard Van Troje, PEN Flanders, and The Dutch Review of Books.