As a clutch of novels arrives referencing Anne Frank, we examine the legacy of the teenager who has brought the horrors of the Holocaust to life for two generations of young readers.
Shalom Auslander tells us about his version of the emblematic girl in his daring new novel Hope: A Tragedy, which imagines Anne as a crotchety old woman kvetching in an attic and struggling to write that elusive sequel to her teenage bestseller.
Naomi Alderman, whose first novel was about the rebellion of an Orthodox lesbian, joins Nathan Englander, author of a blistering short story collection examining post-holocaust survival strategies, to discuss how a new generation of Jewish novelists are trying to step out of the shadow of victimhood.
Plus we visit Stockwell Park School in London to find out what Anne Frank means to an even younger generation of readers.
Reading list
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Penguin)
What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank by nathan Englander (Weidenfeld and Nicholson)
Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander (Picador)
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman (Viking)
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