Kim Echlin

Kim Echlin's third novel, The Disappeared, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and was published in 20 countries. Her new novel, Speak, Silence (March 2021), is a fictional account of The Hague's ground-breaking war crimes trials in which rape in war was defined as a crime again humanity . She has worked and lived around the world, and currently lives in Toronto.

When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

Kim Echlin on Telling Stories of the Unthinkable

March 1, 2021 By Kim Echlin

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Kim Echlin on Morality, Mythology, and the Double Life of Totalitarianism

January 15, 2021 By Kim Echlin

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