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About Alexandra A Viets

A writer/screenwriter, whose work focuses on women and displacement. Excerpts from my forthcoming memoir, โ€˜After the War,โ€™ have been published in literary magazines and short-listed for Wasafiriโ€™s New Writing Prize in London.

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