Deji at PEN World Voices
These pages represent a fictionthatmatters.org collaboration with the PEN World Voices Conference, hosted from April 27-May 3, 2009. World Voices is a fantastic conference with preeminent writers from around the globe.
Click on the posts below for more information.
A review of the annual Freedom to Write lecture by the fiery Egyptian Nawal El Sadaawi.
On the sleuth to understand one of the world’s greatest living manga artists.
Saro-Wiwa and the Closing Door
An investigation into the legacy of the Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and his fight against dictatorship and Royal Dutch Shell.
Two poets from Eastern Germany discuss writing under the former German Democratic Republic, the Stasi, and read poetry.
Left Right Literature, Melted Tears
Writers from Burma, Holland, Pakistan, and Germany discuss the influence of political views upon writing.
Writers and activists discuss the legacy of Tiananmen Square upon literature and the world.
Wafaa discusses his ‘Shoot an Iraqi Project’, Spanish philosopher Terricabras weighs in on the role of technology, and Emmanuel Guibert explains about comics and photography.
Kurlansky, Shehadeh; Grapes
Authors Kurlansky and Shehadeh discuss people, places, and politics through their works about hiking in Palestine and a fishing community in Gloucester, Massachussetts.
A group of writers from Korea, the Philippines, Burma, and the U.S. discuss the influence of prison upon their writing.
