Writers Under Siege : Voices of Freedom from Around the World / ed. by Lucy Popescu, Carole Seymour-Jones.
Abani, Chris, contributor.; Ahmad Bayrakdar, Faraj, contributor.; Ahmad Rajih, Mansur Muhammad, contributor.; Bandazhevsky, Yury, contributor.; Baraheni, Reza, contributor.; Brovina, Flora, contributor.; Cuadra, Angel, contributor.; Dae-Kwon, Hwang, contributor.; Dink, Hrant, contributor.; Dynko, Andrej, contributor.; Esenov, Rakhim, contributor.; Ganji, Akbar, contributor.; Güzel, Asiye, contributor.; Hove, Chenjerai, contributor.; Jabari, Ali Reza, contributor.; Jinsheng, Liu, contributor.; Kamara, Paul, contributor.; Kone, Cheikh, contributor.; Kunzru, Hari, contributor.; Llosa Giraldo, Augusto Ernesto, contributor.; Makhmudov, Mamadali, contributor.; Nasrin, Taslima, contributor.; Ntadi, Jean-Louis, contributor.; Pamuk, Orhan, contributor.; Pasko, Grigory, contributor.; Pinter, Harold, contributor.; Politkovskaya, Anna, contributor.; Popescu, Lucy, contributor.; Popescu, Lucy, editor.; Qisheng, Jiang, contributor.; Qjsheng, Jiang, contributor.; Restano, Yndamiro, contributor.; Revueltas, José, contributor.; Sarkohi, Faraj, contributor.; Saro-Wiwa, Ken, contributor.; Sedrine, Sihem Ben, contributor.; Selvanithy, Thiagarajah, contributor.; Seymour-Jones, Carole, contributor.; Seymour-Jones, Carole, editor.; Stoppard, Tom, contributor.; Stoppard, Tom, contributor.; Suu Kyi, Aung San, contributor.; Tao, Shi, contributor.; Thida, Ma, contributor.; Tho, Gai, contributor.; Tuanama Valera, Javier, contributor.; Tue Sy, Thich, contributor.; Wamwere, Koigi wa, contributor.; Wu, Harry, contributor.; Zaw Win, Khin, contributor.; al-Dumaini, Ali, contributor.
2007
PN6014 .W695 2007
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access

Details

Title Writers Under Siege : Voices of Freedom from Around the World / ed. by Lucy Popescu, Carole Seymour-Jones.
ISBN 9780814768433
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814768433.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814768433.001.0001 doi
Call Number PN6014 .W695 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.800511
Summary 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 to use it without fear. Collected here are fifty contributions by writers who have paid dearly for the privilege of writing. Some have been tortured; some have been killed. All understand the cost of speaking up and speaking out.This book was prepared by PEN, which is both the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. It commemorates PEN's eighty-fifth anniversary and celebrates PEN's work by giving voice to persecuted writers from around the globe. The contributors come from more than twenty countries, from Belarus to Zimbabwe. Many are well-known in the English-speaking world, including Orhan Pamuk, from Turkey, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature; Harold Pinter, from England, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature; Aung San Suu Kyi, from Burma, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize; and Anna Politkovskaya, from Russia, the noted journalist and author who was murdered in 2006, shortly after writing the piece that appears in this collection. Other contributors are less famous, perhaps, but their contributions are no less compelling. In prose and poetry, in fiction and non-fiction, they reveal the personal consequences of war, conflict, terrorism, and authoritarianism.While the pieces collected here differ in their settings and their subjects, all are riveting. Grouped into four sections - Prison, Death, Asylum, and The Freedom to Write - they call our attention to the fundamental humanity we share and highlight the inhumanity we can so easily condone.Contributors include: Chris Abani, Angel Cuadra Landrove, Asiye Guzel, Augusto Ernesto Llosa Giraldo, Mamadali Makhmudov, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, Anna Politkovskaya, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thich Tue Sy, Gai Tho, and Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Added Author Abani, Chris, contributor.
Ahmad Bayrakdar, Faraj, contributor.
Ahmad Rajih, Mansur Muhammad, contributor.
Bandazhevsky, Yury, contributor.
Baraheni, Reza, contributor.
Brovina, Flora, contributor.
Cuadra, Angel, contributor.
Dae-Kwon, Hwang, contributor.
Dink, Hrant, contributor.
Dynko, Andrej, contributor.
Esenov, Rakhim, contributor.
Ganji, Akbar, contributor.
Güzel, Asiye, contributor.
Hove, Chenjerai, contributor.
Jabari, Ali Reza, contributor.
Jinsheng, Liu, contributor.
Kamara, Paul, contributor.
Kone, Cheikh, contributor.
Kunzru, Hari, contributor.
Llosa Giraldo, Augusto Ernesto, contributor.
Makhmudov, Mamadali, contributor.
Nasrin, Taslima, contributor.
Ntadi, Jean-Louis, contributor.
Pamuk, Orhan, contributor.
Pasko, Grigory, contributor.
Pinter, Harold, contributor.
Politkovskaya, Anna, contributor.
Popescu, Lucy, contributor.
Popescu, Lucy, editor.
Qisheng, Jiang, contributor.
Qjsheng, Jiang, contributor.
Restano, Yndamiro, contributor.
Revueltas, José, contributor.
Sarkohi, Faraj, contributor.
Saro-Wiwa, Ken, contributor.
Sedrine, Sihem Ben, contributor.
Selvanithy, Thiagarajah, contributor.
Seymour-Jones, Carole, contributor.
Seymour-Jones, Carole, editor.
Stoppard, Tom, contributor.
Stoppard, Tom, contributor.
Suu Kyi, Aung San, contributor.
Tao, Shi, contributor.
Thida, Ma, contributor.
Tho, Gai, contributor.
Tuanama Valera, Javier, contributor.
Tue Sy, Thich, contributor.
Wamwere, Koigi wa, contributor.
Wu, Harry, contributor.
Zaw Win, Khin, contributor.
al-Dumaini, Ali, contributor.
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814767429
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
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

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export