Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of How to Be Australian (2020). Her first book, My Name Is Revenge (2019), explores connections between Australia and the Armenian genocide. Her writing appears in Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, and other publications. She co-hosts James and Ashley Stay at Home, a podcast about writing, creativity, and health.
In 2019, the Spanish government exhumed the remains of General Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen memorial to relocate them, bringing the controversial dictator alive in national debate in a way he hadn’t been for decades. Franco’s wasn’t the only body to resurface in Spain. Of the 170,000 non-combatants – innocent people – murdered during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–38, ... (read more)