Tendai Frank Tagarira, a Zimbabwean writer currently living in Aarhus, Denmark, commemorated his one-year anniversary as an International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) guest writer with a post he sent to Sampsonia Way.
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An excerpt from Christos Tsiolkas’s novel The Slap, which explores the changing lifestyle of Australia’s middle-class and confronts issues such as multiculturalism, homophobia, and infidelity.
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Two poems by Leena Manimekalai: What do you want? and The Ocean that exceeded the tongue. Manimekalai’s work has been censored in India and has been criticized by both religious conservatives and “ultra left fanatics”.
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Canadian writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis reads an excerpt from The Free World. David Bezmozgis gave a reading alongside Kyung-Sook Shin from South Korea and Hervé Le Tellier at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, where this video was recorded.
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Since she was 19-years-old, Khet Mar has been persecuted by the Burmese government. These quotes and pictures summarize the journey of the current writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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In this video, Gary Shteyngart answers live-Tweeted questions about his novel Super Sad True Love Story and and speaks with Eric Shiner, The Warhol Museum Director, at a City of Asylum/Pittsburgh reading.
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In May 2011, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh received an anonymous poem honoring exiled Chinese poet Huang Xiang for daring to touch “dangerous themes” that “earned him the solitude of prison.”
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