Writers in Peril
Media@9I制作厂免费 is proud to announce a new partnership with Reporters Without Borders and the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival: Writers in Peril, a series of events that will explore and expose the issue of freedom of expression, April 30 鈥� May 4, 2008.
This new programming includes nine events in the Writers in Peril strand. Blue Metropolis presents the initiative this way: 鈥淗ow many times have you opened a newspaper or switched on the news and heard about a writer or a journalist who is fired, harassed, arrested, imprisoned, exiled, killed or otherwise silenced for telling it like it is? The age-old despotic tendency to silence the messenger is clearly taking on new dimensions in a contemporary world that is not only troubled but increasingly interdependent.鈥�
Writers in Peril 2008 will feature more than a dozen writers in a series of panel discussions and on-stage conversations, among them: Karen Connelly, who has been writing about Burma and Thailand, the exiled Iranian editor and playwright Mansour Koushan, British journalist Adam LeBor, who covered the war in the former Yugoslavia from his base in Budapest and has recently written about the Middle East and the failings of the United Nations, as well as Castro鈥檚 daughter Alina Fernandez, Senegalese writer Ken Bugul, the controversial Algerian cartoonist Dilem, German artist, author and former dissident Anke Feuchtenberger, Dutch journalist and novelist Adriaan van Dis, the Italian journalist Roberto Saviano who has uncovered the Camorra, and exiled Iraqi poet Saadi Yousef, winner of the 2008 Blue Metropolis Arab Literary Prize.
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