For the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 1, 8th Session, the author, Maha Harada, was invited to give a talk titled, “Overcoming Hardship: The Mission of Art and Literature in Extreme Conditions”.
Harada focused her talk around 3 of her own books and 3 images that correspond to those works. She mentioned that since the Great East Japan Earthquake, she wondered what she could do as a novelist and took upon the challenge to write, and also firmly stated that whatever hardships she might face in the future, she has vowed to continue writing. She taught us that art and novels have the ability to overcome the challenges in the world. (Akagi)