The following speech was given by WiPC Chair Marian Botsford Fraser the opening event of the Passa Porta Literary Festival in Brussels. She talked about current cases in China, Afghanistan, Mexico and Cuba.
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Pittsburgh Magazine featured City of Asylum in its March issue. “Meet the New Neighbors,” by Christine H. O’Toole, is not only a walk on Sampsonia Way, it’s also a glimpse of its writers, neighbors and the magazine that bears its name.
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Translated by Michelle Yeh Before the Tiananmen Massacre took place on June 4, 1989, I had been engaged in literary activities at five universities in Beijing. In 1987, I was charged with “disturbing peace of society” […]
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When Soe Naing’s youngest daughter Khin Mar Soe was born in 2001, he had “no dreams for her,” he recalled. She was born in a refugee camp in the Thailand-Burma border, one of an estimated 150,000 […]
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