Beyond Bars - 50 Years of the Pen Writers in Prison Committee

Informationen zum Autor Jo Glanville is Director of English PEN and joined the organization in September 2012 from Index on Censorship, where she served as an award-winning Editor since 2006.  Klappentext This issue of Index on Censorship celebrates 50 years of English PEN by looking at the impact that imprisonment and persecution has on literature -- and asking what challenges writers continue to face today. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Lydia Cacho and Maureen Freel Zusammenfassung This issue of Index on Censorship celebrates 50 years of English PEN by looking at the impact that imprisonment and persecution has on literature -- and asking what challenges writers continue to face today. Contributors include Margaret Atwood! Lydia Cacho and Maureen Freel Inhaltsverzeichnis Editorial - Natasha Schmidt Letters from the outside - Tom Stoppard A line to the writers in prison Power of the pen - Carole Seymour-Jones Fifty years of defending writers Eyewitness - Moris Farhi On Faraj Sarkoohi Two for the Road - Maureen Freely Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller in Turkey Survival in prison - Anne Sebba Bearing witness Language under arrest - Mohamed Nasheed A new language of freedom Dialogue with death - Michael Scammell Arthur Koestler and prison Don¿t tell us what to say - Margaret Atwood The freedom to write Stripsearch - Martin Rowson Words without borders - Lisa Appignanesi The importance of looking closer to home Reluctant Heroes - Lydia Cacho Writing in the limelight A licence to write - Ngugi Wa Thiongo From classroom to clampdown The shape of things to come - Ronald Deibert Bloggers under threat Eyewitness - William Boyd On Ken Saro-Wiwa Writing Wrongs - Lewis Medjo Life in a Cameroon Jail Eyewitness - Ania Corless On Uzbekistan Lone star - Salil Tripathi The battle to protect universal rights continues Eyewitness - Antonia Fraser On Irina Ratushinskaya Not forgotten - Val Warner Léster Luis González Pentón and the Black Spring prisoners Fifty Years, Fifty Writers Supporting writers around the world 1960-2010 ...

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• Authors: Jo Censorship Glanville, Jo Index on Censorship Glanville, Jo Glanville
• Assisted by: Index on Censorship (Editor), Jo Glanville (Editor), Glanville Jo (Editor), Index on Censorship (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2010
• EAN: 9780857028471
• ISBN: 978-0-85702-847-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Index on Censorship; Index on Censorship
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Human rights, civil rights, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Offenders, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech