Fed up with conditions in what the western media has called Europe’s last dictatorship, thousands of Belarusians have expressed their discontent in a strikingly unorthodox fashion: clapping.
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In this interview, writer Philo Ikonya talks about her writing, activism, being a mother in exile, and freedom of expression in Kenya. Now president of PEN Kenya, Ikonya has been arrested multiple times for protesting, was severely beaten while in police custody in 2009.
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In this interview Uzeki talks about his involvement with Oliver Lake’s Big Band, naming his original compositions, and sparking the imaginations of his listeners. Oliver Lake’s Big Band performed in the 2010 City of Asylum’s Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Exiled writer Ali al-Jallawi explains to us via email from a Germany his history of arrests, the struggles of being in exile, and the changes he would like to see in his country.
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Video journalist Hla Hla Win was sentenced to 27 years in jail in Burma for interviewing a monk during the 2007 ‘Saffron Revolution’ failed uprising.
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On May 3rd South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin read at an event sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and PEN/America. Here is a video of her reading from her novel Please Look after Mom in its original Korean.
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Yolanda Ordaz is the third journalist to be killed this year in the Mexican state of Veracruz and is among more than 70 killed since 2000, according to press rights groups and media tallies.
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Poet Nancy Krygowski reads the English translation of Please Look After Mom as part of a reading sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and PEN/America. The reading also featured authors Hervé Le Tellier and David Bezmozgis.
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Para el lector de habla hispana, Sampsonia Way presenta un fragmento de la última novela de Horacio Castellanos Moya en español: La sirvienta y el luchador.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya leerá fragmentos de su novela Tirana Memoria en City of Asylum Pittsburgh. En la reseña publicada en el New York Times, se resalta que la aguda ironía de Castellanos Moya ilustra el ritmo de vida en una ciudad provinciana de Latino América.
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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