“La relación entre distintas generaciones literarias responde muchas a veces a un movimiento pendular: la nueva generación se mueve hacia el extremo opuesto de las posiciones estéticas, y a veces políticas, de donde se ubicaba la generación anterior.”
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Horacio Castellanos Moya examines how literary trends in Latin American countries are often a backlash against the trends that precede them.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao reflects on Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan who has been criticized for his cooperation with China’s government and for advocating censorship.
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This week, China holds Ai WeiWei’s passport, Taliban threats to Pakistan media, and the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is released.
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Celebrated slam poet and educator Patricia Smith discusses what inspires her, exploring history through a poetic lens, and a poet’s role as an activist and a teacher.
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Aron Atabek is a prize-winning poet and political writer currently in jail in Kazakhstan. His works are highly critical of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan and his policies. Sampsonia Way is proud to present his poem, RE-ZONA-NCE.
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Swiss author and editor Bernard Comment’s The Shadow Memory is now available in English for the first time. Comment will be coming to Pittsburgh to read at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh on October 29.
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