THE BOOK
MONUMENTA
BY LARA HAWORTH
Olga Pavic’s house has been requisitioned. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. Olga must reunite her children for a final dinner in their home. Within an atmosphere of political surreality, Haworth spins a tender, magical story of familial love and loss. Monumenta compellingly and playfully explores remembrance and how tragedy can be the catalyst for remarkable transformation.
LARA HAWORTH
Lara Haworth was born in Belgium and raised in London. She is a queer writer, filmmaker and political researcher, specialising in the UK’s move to become carbon zero by 2050. Having turned an extract from Monumenta into a short story, she won a Bridport Prize for it in October 2022. That year she also won a prize for ‘The Thames Barrier’ in the Café Writers Poetry Competition, and wrote and narrated a major podcast, The Swimming Pool, for NTS radio. Her writing workshop, Letters That Will Never Be Sent, was featured in a BBC World Service documentary.
Photography © Marc Sethi
