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Beyond Bars

50 Years of the PEN Writers in Prison Committee
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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
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.
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 Lester Luis Gonzalez Penton and the Black Spring prisoners Fifty Years, Fifty Writers Supporting writers around the world 1960-2010
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