Last week, Brussels, Belgium was an epicenter of international literature and a meeting point for literary freedom of speech. Sampsonia Way’s managing editor, Silvia Duarte, traveled there and met some writers, organizers and representatives from all the organizations in attendance.
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In this interview, Paul Buekenhout, Passa Porta project coordinator, talks about this great, sui generis project. Passa Porta is Brussels’ international house of literature: a meeting place for readers and writers, a space where the link between Dutch, French, and foreign-language literature is reinforced.
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Index on Censorship has published the shortlist for the Freedom of Expression Awards 2011. The awards honor those who, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and stories from around the globe that may otherwise have passed unnoticed.
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Index on Censorship has published the shortlist for the Freedom of Expression Awards 2011. The awards honor those who, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and stories from around the globe that may otherwise have passed unnoticed.
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In this video, Hayes reads the poem Cocktails with Orpheus from his National Book Award-winning collection Lighthead, at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh.
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Yukiko Konosu has been updating SW on the situation in Japan through Twitter. Konosu is a literary critic and translator of more than sixty books, which include J.M.Coetzee’s Disgrace and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin. She translated Maxine Case’s Homing Pigeons to Japanese and share it with our magazine. She lives in Tokyo.
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Reporters Without Borders released a new 100-page report on the state of online freedom of expression in the 10 countries it has identified as “Enemies of the Internet” and the 16 countries it is keeping “under surveillance” because of their questionable Internet policies.
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