Raven Kamali Writes Roman Historical Fiction
and Launches Her New Book
I was
born in Iran into a family of historians and poets, so I grew up
loving both disciplines. When I migrated to Australia, the first
history book I bought was Thucydides’s History of The
Peloponnesian War from the Penguin Classics series. I enjoyed it
so much that I read it multiple times. The next book was Polybius’s.
Now I had to read every book on the Punic Wars and my favorite hero,
Scipio Africanus the Elder. Several books later, I enrolled at the
University of Queensland to study ancient history and the classical
languages of Latin and Greek. It was one of the most incredible
experiences of my life as the veil to the past lifted, and I stepped
into the ancient world.
After my
gradunation, it was time for me to make a career choice: become an
ancient historian or a novelist. As a busy mum, I couldn’t do
both, so I chose the latter. And I had a dream. I wanted to write a
historical novel that was relevant to our times. The inspiration for
the story was primarily based on my personal experience and reading
Josephus. The Battle of the Teutoburg recorded by Tacitus, Cassius
Dio, and Velleius Paterculus added the necessary dimension I needed
to advance the plot.
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Thus, I
began my journey and wrote The Dark Side of Glory. A powerful
novel of love and friendship, deceit and treachery, hatred and
vengeance, and political intrigue that tells the story of a young
Jewish woman facing unimaginable horrors for refusing to bow to
religious fanaticism.
Read Raven Kamali's Reflections on “The Dark Side of Glory” at
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