Despite facing censorship and interference from Chinese authorities, blogger Li Chengpeng’s recently published The Whole World Knows became a phenomenal success.
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In part two of a series on freedom in society, Israel Centeno shows how the dystopia Aldous Huxley created in his novel Brave New World could become a reality.
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In this interview, Natasha Wimmer talks about becoming a translator, learning about Bolaño, and the United States’ relationship with literature in translation.
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In part one of a series on freedom in society, Israel Centeno uses Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to dissect liberal dystopias and a future without freedom.
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In the third installment on Orwell’s 1984 and totalitarianism, Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno outlines the themes of 1984.
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Israel Centeno describes George Orwell’s difficulties finding a publisher for Animal Farm and how that bitterness led to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno presents the first of a short series of articles concerning two paradigmatic novels that address the issue of a future without freedom.
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Read an excerpt from The Polish Boxer, Eduardo Halfon’s first novel to be published in English. The novel’s title comes from a story told by the narrator’s grandfather, who says he was saved in Auschwitz by a Polish boxer.
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Swiss author and editor Bernard Comment’s The Shadow Memory is now available in English for the first time. Comment will be coming to Pittsburgh to read at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh on October 29.
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In Ghosts of Revolution Shahla Talebi writes about her first imprisonment as a political prisoner before the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Read an exclusive excerpt of the memoir.
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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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