“Coming to middle America as a woman who had spent eleven years on the East Coast of America but also fifteen years living in Pakistan, the divides were more obvious to me.” -Bina Shah, Pakistani writer
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“In Mexico we feel hurt and shocked to see that so many people in the United States, including Latinos and women, voted for Donald Trump.” -Jennifer Clement, President of PEN International, Mexican-American writer
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“Do we turn on others, or toward others? Do we share our awakening, or only our despair?”
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Achy Obejas on the results of the 2016 US election.
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Bangladeshi publisher, writer and editor Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (known as Tutul) has been named 2016 International Writer of Courage.
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Russian poet and author Anzhelina Polonskaya received the Words on Border Freedom prize at a ceremony at the literature festival Ord uten Grenser in Fredrikstad.
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An explanation of the political and historic contexts of the Kursk submarine disaster, a highly taboo subject in Russia.
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