Olive Senior - PEN International
Olive Senior - PEN International
Olive Senior - PEN International
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50<br />
WiPC<br />
50<br />
WORDS ... WRITERS IN PRISON COMMITTEE 50TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
WRITERS IN PRISON COMMITTEE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
Nick Parker<br />
1997: Faraj Sarkoohi<br />
We do not like<br />
the words you choose.<br />
So, we have chosen<br />
some for you:<br />
I flew to Germany.<br />
I stayed for a month.<br />
I contacted no one.<br />
You are mistaken.<br />
Everything is normal.<br />
I am fine. I am fine.<br />
Isn’t that how you tell a story?<br />
Now. Come with us.<br />
Essayist and editor Faraj Sarkoohi was imprisoned by Iranian<br />
authorities under the Shah’s regime as well as under the Islamic<br />
Republic. A key figure in the anti-censorship movement that has<br />
seen many its writers die since the mid-1990s, he was tortured<br />
and threatened with execution before being released in 1998.<br />
He lives and works in Germany. See: ‘Because Writers Speak Their<br />
Minds’, the fiftieth-anniversary campaign of <strong>International</strong> <strong>PEN</strong>’s<br />
Writers in Prison Committee; www.internationalpen.org.uk<br />
and http://26-50.tumblr.com.<br />
WiPC 50 Years, 50 Cases
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