15 Must Read Author Interviews of 2011
by Sampsonia Way / December 21, 2011 / No comments
The following selection of Sampsonia Way author interviews published in 2011 feature diverse voices from around the world sharing their views on a range of topics, including the creative process, politics and culture, and their own struggle to defend freedom of expression.
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Amiri Baraka / USA
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BARAKA-lores.jpg"I just wrote a play about [W.E.B.] DuBois called The Most Dangerous Man in America. That’s what the FBI called DuBois. But that man was 82 years old and had a cane." Read the interview
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Philo Ikonya / Kenya
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/philo-sune-segal-2-2-e1312149605882.jpg"I will go back to my country, and it will not be easy. But I have to protect my writing." Read the interview
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Liao Yiwu / China
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Liao-Yiwu1.jpg"In a way, the exile was imposed on me. I didn’t choose it... I was forced to leave China to seek freedom to write." Read the interview
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Edwidge Danticat / Haiti/USA
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Edwidge-Danticat-on-the-Dangers-of-Being-an-Artist1.jpg"There are people in this world this very minute who are creating dangerously; they are risking their lives for their art." Read the interview
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Dermot Bolger / Ireland
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/dermot_bolger1.jpg"Since the early days when I felt that the Dublin I knew wasn’t being written about I’ve always tried to chronicle each decade of Dublin as the city has changed." Read the interview
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Kyung-sook Shin / South Korea
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Kyung-sook-Shin.jpg"In the past, the enemy was clear and the things we needed to fight against were obvious. Now it is difficult for us to see what enemies we have. As a result, speaking has become more difficult, even if we do have more freedom of expression." Read the interview
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Chenjerai Hove and Brian Chikwava / Zimbabwe
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/issue6-zimbabwe_email.jpg"We have freedom of expression; what we don’t have is freedom after expression" - Hove Read the interview
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Hind Shoufani / Palestine
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/hind_shoufani.png"I think that is what the poem is trying to say: I am tired of being bombarded by pain, and other people’s pain, which creates a certain amounts of guilt because I’ve been privileged in many ways as a Palestinian." Read the interview
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Yu Kwang-chung / Taiwan
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yu_Kwang-chung.jpg"Poetry can be used for many purposes, one of which is as a weapon." Read the interview
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Beverly Perez Rego / Venezuela
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Perez_Rego_2-738x1024.jpg"Poetry is a testimony of your passage through life. The only thing you can aspire to is to be as faithful as you can to what you witnessed." Read the interview
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Cornelius Eady / USA
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cornelius-eady_poetryfoundation-e1324408321405.jpg"[Cave Canem] emboldens some of us to challenge the assumptions some hold of the African American poetic. Challenge involves resistance, and no one gives up privilege without a fight." Read the interview
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Nawal El Saadawi / Egypt
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/nawal_el_saadawi1.jpg"I cannot discuss Egypt in isolation from America and Israel and Britain because we live in one world, not three worlds, and we are affected by each other." Read the interview
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Horacio Castellanos Moya / El Salvador
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Horacio-Castellanos-Moya1.jpg“When something is burning inside you, you can write in any conditions anywhere.” Read the interview
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Alexandra Petrova / Russia
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Alexandra_Petrova.jpgIt seems to me that Russia holds no memory of herself. She is blind because she can’t see how her own history shapes her people. Read the interview
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Hervé Le Tellier / France
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/LE-TELLIER-portraitc-Cathy-Bistour-.jpg"To translate is to betray. Traduttore, tradittore say the Italians." Read the interview
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