The pop star speaks to the Hay Festival about her passion for reading and her drive for success.
Culture reporter at the Hay Festival
Having moved between her parents' native Kosovo and London as a child, she said her adaptability had helped.Her audience were a mixed bunch, but there was a sizeable number of patient parents queuing up at the humid Baillie Gifford stage with teenage daughters who were scrolling through Dua's Instagram feed as they waited to be seated.
Born in London after her parents moved there to escape the war in former Yugoslavia, she moved back to Kosovo with her parents at the age of 11. When she was 15, she headed back to the UK to take her GCSEs and pursue a music career."There was always the idea of being from two places at once," she explained. "I understood the duality of my heritage from an early age. People would always ask where my name is from.
When she moved to Kosovo, she discovered The Castle/The Siege by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, set amid a conflict in the 15th Century. Along the way, she found herself in a "difficult, early relationship in my life", she said, explaining: "I guess I was in a relationship with someone who had a very different idea of fidelity than I had.""[Main character] Tomas has a very unapologetic philosophy on relationships and monogamy. My philosophy never changed... but books help you understand other people's emotions, the human experience," she explained.
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