Six members of blogging group Zone 9 and three other journalists could could face terrorism charges in one of the world’s deadliest countries for journalists
By Milana Knezevic / 11 July, 2014
(Photo: Zone 9/Facebook)
“We blog because we care!” This is the slogan and rallying cry of Zone 9, a group of young Ethiopians Continue reading
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PUBLISHED ON JULY 10, 2014
PEN American Center strongly protests the sentencing of an editor and four journalists in Myanmar to 10 years in prison. The journalists, from the newspaper Unity, Continue reading
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Tagged Journalists, Myanmar, PEN American
Posted: 07/10/2014 9:08 am EDT Updated: 07/10/2014 9:59 am EDT Print Article
Imagine if all book covers are black, and the titles and the authors’ names are printed in white. There is no visual language, no identity, no warmth, no genial introduction. And the feeling is not different when we see books with covers of the same shade, images, and layout. Continue reading
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Bars in Beijing’s well-known Sanlitun night club district are packed with foreigners in town to enjoy the Olympics, on August 14, 2008 in Beijing, China. Continue reading
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
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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
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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
