In the third installment on Orwell’s 1984 and totalitarianism, Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno outlines the themes of 1984.
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Despite a successful career, Indian playwright Mahesh Dattani struggles to deal with censorship, not from the government, but from his peers and patrons.
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This week: free speech at U.S. universities, Internet regulations to be discussed at the ITU, and Iranian writers call for an end to book censorship.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya reflects on the 10-year silence of author Liliana Heker, who was stricken by an extreme case of writer’s block.
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This week: Bahraini activist Zanib Alkhawaja profiled, Julian Assange speaks to Democracy Now!, and impacts of government censorship on literary expression.
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Writer, photographer, and artist Nyi Pu Lay reminds us of the many wounds Burma has suffered and the long road to her full recovery.
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Writer, photographer, and artist Nyi Pu Lay reminds us of the many wounds Burma has suffered and the long road to her full recovery.
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Sampsonia Way presents an exclusive excerpt from Israel Centeno’s novel La Torre Invertida, which is currently being translated into English.
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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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Sampsonia Way presents an excerpt from Indian author Vijay Nair’s latest novel Let Her Rest Now which was published in June by Hachette India. Nair is currently a visiting writer at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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