Here Alice Pung talks to Khet Mar about what kind of a writer she would be if she lived in Cambodia, her challenges as a Cambodian writer born in a different country, and Writers in Motion, a regional tour she’s currently on with other 8 writers exploring the Mid-Atlantic and South.
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Journalist Judith Torrea’s blog, “Juárez, Under the Shadow of Drug Trafficking,” wins this year’s BOB Award for “Reporters Without Borders”, organized by Germany’s Deutsche Welle. Torrea’s blog covers drug cartel activities, government repression and police corruption in northern Mexico.
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John O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press) interviews Best European Fiction authors Igor Stiks (Croatia), Gonçalo M. Tavares (Portugal) and Peter Terrin (Belgium) at the Passa Porta Literary Festival. A Sampsonia Way exclusive.
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Khet Mar, a City of Asylum Pittsburgh writer-in-residence, is on the road with Writers in Motion, a two week study tour of the Mid-Atlantic and the American South, sponsored by the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
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In this video, Tommy Wieringa reads an excerpt of his 2005 novel Joe Speedboat at an event sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, in partnership with PEN American Center.
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Carta del cubano Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso, periodista y poeta exiliado en España, a los asistentes de la conferencia anual del Comité de Escritores en Prisión de PEN Internacional.
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A statement by Cuban exiled journalist and poet Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso to the PEN International Writers in Prison Committee annual conference in Brussels.
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