City of Asylum/Pittsburgh visiting writer Vijay Nair examines the literary careers of two Urdu writers: Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto.
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Bina Shah writes about her recent trip to China and about the perils and uncertainties of having your work translated in a restrictive environment.
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Commentary on the case of censored film Despertar, a documentary about the cultural apartheid against Rastafarian rapper Raudel Collazo. His song “Decadencia” is a generational howl against the institutionalized intolerance of the Cuba.
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Dissident Chinese writer Guo Feixiong was released from prison after serving a five-year-sentence. Guo Feixiong is a novelist and essayist, independent publisher, and rural civil rights advisor and activist.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently banned writer and poet Liao Yiwu, whose new books focuses on the chinese underclass, from attending international literary events in Sydney and New York.
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