Outcast

**A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR**

Encountering the last leprosarium in Europe and remote villages in Mozambique, moving through Siberian settlements and Brazil's hinterlands, Outcast travels the margins of society and charts the history of a misunderstood disease.

Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. His writing has appeared in the Guardian , Financial Times , The White Review and Times Literary Supplement ; he has contributed to programming on BBC Radio 4 and is Editor-at-Large at ArtReview . In 2018 he was a judge for the Turner Prize. Outcast is his first book; he was the recipient of the 2023 RSL Giles St Aubyn Award, awarded for debut works of non-fiction.