Writers Under Siege : : Voices of Freedom from Around the World / / ed. by Lucy Popescu, Carole Seymour-Jones.

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• MitwirkendeR: Abani, Chris,; Ahmad Bayrakdar, Faraj,; Ahmad Rajih, Mansur Muhammad,; Bandazhevsky, Yury,; Baraheni, Reza,; Brovina, Flora,; Cuadra, Angel,; Dae-Kwon, Hwang,; Dink, Hrant,; Dynko, Andrej,; Esenov, Rakhim,; Ganji, Akbar,; Güzel, Asiye,; Hove, Chenjerai,; Jabari, Ali Reza,; Jinsheng, Liu,; Kamara, Paul,; Kone, Cheikh,; Kunzru, Hari,; Llosa Giraldo, Augusto Ernesto,; Makhmudov, Mamadali,; Nasrin, Taslima,; Ntadi, Jean-Louis,; Pamuk, Orhan,; Pasko, Grigory,; Pinter, Harold,; Politkovskaya, Anna,; Popescu, Lucy,; Qisheng, Jiang,; Qjsheng, Jiang,; Restano, Yndamiro,; Revueltas, José,; Sarkohi, Faraj,; Saro-Wiwa, Ken,; Sedrine, Sihem Ben,; Selvanithy, Thiagarajah,; Seymour-Jones, Carole,; Stoppard, Tom,; Suu Kyi, Aung San,; Tao, Shi,; Thida, Ma,; Tho, Gai,; Tuanama Valera, Javier,; Tue Sy, Thich,; Wamwere, Koigi wa,; Wu, Harry,; Zaw Win, Khin,; al-Dumaini, Ali,
• HerausgeberIn: Popescu, Lucy,; Seymour-Jones, Carole,
• TeilnehmendeR: Stoppard, Tom.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The freedom to write is under threat today throughout the world, with more than 1,000 writers, journalists, and publishers known to be imprisoned or persecuted in more than 100 countries. Writers Under Siege bears witness to the power and danger of the pen, and to the powerful longing for the right...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• A Note on Selections
• Death
• From his last television interview
• Prison
• A minor mistake in Evin Prison
• A true story of April Fool's Day
• Time for prison, times for freedom
• Mirrors of absence
• Asiye' s story
• 'Chiquitin'
• Letter
• Prison
• We make death easy
• Cuba
• The philosophy of my life
• Conscience on Trial
• Poems
• 'Letter to Arthur Miller'
• Poems
• Letter
• Silent impatience
• Poems
• Sacrificial therapy
• Poems
• Letters
• What I'm doing
• Letter
• The Freedom
• Letter
• Death
• On the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa
• Undying gardens
• Family Picture in Havana
• A Man Dies, Cuba, 1964
• Extracts from Dungeon of Ghosts
• Poems
• Extract from Thunderstorm in the Night
• Mango Chutney
• Exile
• Once I had a home
• Family picture in Havana
• Cries of the cricket
• Poems
• The long road
• Mother
• The burdens of creativity in Africa- reflections
• The Freedom to Write
• Essay
• PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write
• Freedom from fear
• Extract from speech
• Light a myriad candles to collectively commemorate the brave spirits of 4 June An open letter
• A novel response
• Extract from speech
• Host not found
• Letters
• Acknowledgements
• Permissions