ALCS survey finds median annual earnings for professional writers have fallen to £11,000, 29% down since 2005
‘My own royalty income has fallen dramatically over the last decade,’ … Will Self. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Will Self’s lament for the death of the novel earlier this summer has been cast into stark relief by “shocking” new statistics Continue reading
Posted July 7th, 2014 by Emma Cleave & filed under Translation.
English PEN is proud to support award-winning Iraqi author Hassan Blasim’s anthology of short stories Iraq + 100. The collection asks ten contemporary Iraqi writers to reflect on what their home city might Continue reading
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 winner Hassan Blasim receives PEN award已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged Foreign Fiction Prize, Hassan Blasim, PEN Award
This article is the part of the Index on Censorship Young Writers / Artists Programme
By Katie Dancey / 9 July, 2014
Twitter trolls, online mobs and “offensive” Facebook posts are constantly making headlines as authorities struggle to determine how to police social media. In a recent development, links posted on Facebook Continue reading
Facebook’s online shaming mobs已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, Facebook
JULY 8, 2014
POSTED BY ALEX HALBERSTADT
I met Daniel Genis at a bookstore. It was March, and I was there to speak on a panel about Sergei Dovlatov, the comic novelist of late Soviet decay, and Genis came up to Continue reading
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW JULY 7, 2014 4:23 AMJuly 7, 2014 11:45 pm
A meeting on May 3 in Beijing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement led to the detentions of several participants and criminal charges against a prominent lawyer, Continue reading
Lawyer Charged After Trying to Defend June 4 Commemorators已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chang Boyang, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
published: July 8, 2014
On June 4, Deutsche Welle published a piece by its China correspondent, Frank Sieren, titled: “From Tiananmen to Leipzig” (German, Chinese translation). In this article, Mr. Sieren takes an inventive angle on the bloody act Continue reading
Chang Ping:Tiananmen Massacre not a “Passing Lapse” of the Chinese Government已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chang Ping, June 4th, Tiananmen
JULY 8, 2014
Sophie Richardson
Peacefully holding aloft banners calling for an end to corruption. Peacefully protesting outside government buildings. Peacefully gathering to commemorate historical anniversaries. These efforts have in recent months led to activists Continue reading
Dispatches: China’s Repression Isn’t Public Order已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Religious Freedom
Tagged Nanle, Paster, Sophie Richardson, Zhang Shaojie
2014-07-08
Christian pastor Zhang Shaojie in detention in February 2014.
Photo courtesy of lawyer Liu Weiguo.
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have handed a 12-year Continue reading
Chinese Christian Pastor’s 12-Year Prison Term ‘A Miscarriage of Justice’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Religious Freedom
Tagged Christian Pastor, Nanle, Religious Freedom, Zhang Shaojie
