Beyond Bars : 50 Years of the PEN Writers in Prison Committee

by Jo Glanville

• ISBN13: 9780857028471
• ISBN10: 0857028472
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-19
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary

From Russia to Burma to Mexico, writers are silenced for expressing their views. To mark fifty years of solidarity with imprisoned and persecuted writers around the world, English PEN and Index on Censorship are collaborating on a special issue of the magazine, asking journalists, novelists, playwrights, poets and translators to assess what unique role writers can play in supporting their colleagues around the world. We'll look at the impact that imprisonment and persecution has on literature -- and ask what challenges writers continue to face today. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Lydia Cacho and Maureen Freely.Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world's finest writers.For subscription options visit: http://ioc.sagepub.comwww.indexoncensorship.org: the place to turn for free up-to-the-minute free expression news and commentWinner 2008 Amnesty International Consumer Magazine of the Year

Table of Contents

Editorial

Letters from the outside

a line to the writers in prison

Power of the pen

Fifty years of defending writers

Eyewitness

On Faraj Sarkoohi

Two for the Road

Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller in Turkey

Survival in prison

Bearing witness

Language under arrest

a new language of freedom

Dialogue with death

Arthur Koestler and prison

Don't tell us what to say

The freedom to write

Stripsearch

Words without borders

The importance of looking closer to home

Reluctant Heroes

Writing in the limelight

a licence to write

From classroom to clampdown

The shape of things to come

Bloggers under threat

Eyewitness

On Ken Saro-Wiwa

Writing Wrongs

Life in a Cameroon Jail

Eyewitness

On Uzbekistan

Lone star

The battle to protect universal rights continues

Eyewitness

On Irina Ratushinskaya

Not forgotten

Léster Luis GonzÃílez Pentón and the Black Spring prisoners

Fifty Years, Fifty Writers

Supporting writers around the world 1960-2010

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