Beyond Bars

50 Years of the PEN Writers in Prison Committee
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85702-847-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Index on Censorship

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.

Winner 2008 Amnesty International Consumer Magazine of the Year

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glanville, Jo

Censorship, Index On

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Glanville, Jo
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.