Sky Arts Awards

So there's a risk there in terms of arrest.

And that actually came to the point where she was awarded an award in the UK, the Sky Arts Award for her writing.

And she didn't actually turn up, she didn't travel over from Ireland to the UK necessarily.

There's a speech right out there, I think by her publisher at the time.

Phenomenal, phenomenal stuff.

I love, [laughs] I love those Sky Arts Awards.

Um, the, [laughs] very minor thing, the trophy always looks really, really cool.

I don't know who designs them, and [laughs] I'm sure I could find out.

Her work should be celebrated and widely available, not driven off the shelves of British bookshops because she refuses to be complicit in the suppression of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

No author should have to choose between their principles and their freedom to publish." In September 2025, she won a Sky Arts Award for literature for her book Intermezzo, but she could not attend the London ceremony because lawyers advised her that she risked arrest if she set foot on British soil.

I want to go through a couple of extraordinary responses to this development.

Extraordinary is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.