Tienchi Martin Liao bids farewell to Liu Xiaobo, an outspoken advocate for democracy and freedom of expression in China, who died a political prisoner on July 13, 2017.
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“Human life revolves around love and death.” -Svetlana Alexievich
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A conversation between Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas and Dominican author Aurora Arias.
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Like Milan Kundera, exiled Chinese writer Gao Xingjian has attempted to remove himself from his national identity.
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Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich was recognized with the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize for giving voice to a “history of emotion.”
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Egyptian cartoonist Doaa Eladl on the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president, Tienchi Martin-Liao, reflects on the five-year anniversary of imprisonment of dissident writer and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, his wife’s prolonged, Kafkaesque house arrest, the calls for solidarity from Chinese human rights activists, and the power of words.
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