Claire Nicholls

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2,363 appearances 20 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2020 last heard 13 Sep

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And this grief, it's complicated because their father, Yusuf, was a palm oil baron.

Grappling with his legacy is no small feat.

Fierce Land is a book that is also sprinkled with magic.

The first character we meet is the forest, which speaks in poetry.

And we also hear stories of Pontianics, or tree ghosts.

Omar explained these to me when we first spoke about this book, Fierce Land, last year.

And did you hear these stories growing up, Omar?

Wow.

So your dad came across from Borneo.

What about you, Omar?

Have you spent a lot of time there?

This is a book about Borneo.

It's about ghosts or Pontianaks.

It's also about deforestation.

It's about the palm oil trade.

It's about art.

It's about commerce.

It's about colonialism.

This is a big question, Omar, but what was on your mind when this all started?

Was it also about writing a novel about Borneo itself?

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