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Beyond Bars
50 Years of the PEN Writers in Prison Committee



December 2010 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
From Russia to Burma to Mexico, writers are silenced for expressing their views. To mark fifty years of solidarity with imprisoned and persecuted writers around the world, English PEN and Index on Censorship are collaborating on a special issue of the magazine, asking journalists, novelists, playwrights, poets and translators to assess what unique role writers can play in supporting their colleagues around the world. We'll look at the impact that imprisonment and persecution has on literature -- and ask what challenges writers continue to face today. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Lydia Cacho and Maureen Freely.

Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world's finest writers.

Winner 2008 Amnesty International Consumer Magazine of the Year

Natasha Schmidt
Editorial
Tom Stoppard
Letters from the outside
A line to the writers in prison

 
Carole Seymour-Jones
Power of the pen
Fifty years of defending writers

 
Moris Farhi
Eyewitness
On Faraj Sarkoohi

 
Maureen Freely
Two for the Road
Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller in Turkey

 
Anne Sebba
Survival in prison
Bearing witness

 
Mohamed Nasheed
Language under arrest
A new language of freedom

 
Michael Scammell
Dialogue with death
Arthur Koestler and prison

 
Margaret Atwood
Don't tell us what to say
The freedom to write

 
Martin Rowson
Stripsearch
Lisa Appignanesi
Words without borders
The importance of looking closer to home

 
Lydia Cacho
Reluctant Heroes
Writing in the limelight

 
Ngugi Wa Thiongo
A licence to write
From classroom to clampdown

 
Ronald Deibert
The shape of things to come
Bloggers under threat

 
William Boyd
Eyewitness
On Ken Saro-Wiwa

 
Lewis Medjo
Writing Wrongs
Life in a Cameroon Jail

 
Ania Corless
Eyewitness
On Uzbekistan

 
Salil Tripathi
Lone star
The battle to protect universal rights continues

 
Antonia Fraser
Eyewitness
On Irina Ratushinskaya

 
Val Warner
Not forgotten
Léster Luis González Pentón and the Black Spring prisoners

 
 
Fifty Years, Fifty Writers
Supporting writers around the world 1960-2010