On July 27, former City of Asylum writer-in-residence Horacio Castellanos Moya bid Pittsburgh farewell with a reading from Tyrant Memory, his newest novel to be translated into English.
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How did City of Asylum start in the United States? Desire Cooper tells the story of Richard Wiley, a writer and professor who helped establish the first American City of Asylum, located at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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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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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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Sampsonia Way magazine presents fragments from Tyrant Memory selected by author. The tyrant of Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is based on the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez who came to power in El Salvador in 1932.
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Sampsonia Way magazine poses 15 questions to Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Tyrant Memory, his latest novel, and former writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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In this interview, Tagarira talks to Sampsonia Way about President Robert Mugabe, the different means of illustrating a message, and the psychology of discrimination.
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In June 2011, Sampsonia Way asked poet Cornelius Eady if there was a personal story that made him believe Cave Canem, an organization of African-American poets he co-founded in 1996, was an indispensable institution in the …
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Like the many facets of Shteyngart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story alternate future, this conversation between the author and John Allison (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) turned to unexpected topics like pornography, immortality, and Russia.
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Tibetan activist Tsering Woeser documents Tibetan writers and teachers who have been arrested or imprisoned since 2008 by authorities in Sichuan province, China.
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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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