Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the importance of the Tiananmen Square Massacre twenty-four years later, why China should not wait for a savior, and her work with imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo.
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The Village Indian tells author Abbas Khider’s own story of exile. With elements of both tragedy and comedy, the following excerpt – Chapter 6: The Miracles – details the many “miracles” that allow Khider’s fictional protagonist, Rasul Hamid, to flee from Iraq to Germany.
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The week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. Featured this week: freedom of religion in North Korea, how internet actually works in China, German-Bulgarian writer and NSA critic Ilija Trojanov denied entry into US.
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September is a deadly month for Mexican journalists: four murdered since 2008 with impunity. Learn about the life and work of the slain journalists, and what you can do demand justice.
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In this new edition of The Writer’s Block, Sampsonia Way talks to Sridala Swami, a poet and children’s writer. Swami is a resident of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and a performer at the 2013 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Two poems from Bones Will Crow, the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry translated into English: “Achilles’ Heel” by Khin Aung Aye and “The Sniper” by Pandora. Both poems are translated by the poet Ko Ko Thett.
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Video chat en vivo centrado en la antología Nuevarrativa Cubana. La conversación reúne a la autora Lien Carrazana Lau (Madrid), el artista Danilo Maldonado Machado “El Sexto” (La Haya), la editora Elena Victoria Molina (Barcelona), y al escritor Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
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