gambia – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:36:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 PEN Day of the Imprisoned Writer /College/translation/threepercent/2007/11/15/pen-day-of-the-imprisoned-writer/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/11/15/pen-day-of-the-imprisoned-writer/#respond Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:50:02 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/11/15/pen-day-of-the-imprisoned-writer/ Today is PEN’s .

On November 15 each year International PEN stages the . PEN members do what they can to “raise public awareness of the plight of their colleagues worldwide,” writing protest appeals, staging events, and calling attention to imprisoned writers around the globe. Five writers in particular are selected “to represent the global spread of the problems as well as to illustrate the types of attacks.”

This year, the five writers are: Zargana (Myanmar/Burma), Normando Hernández González (Cuba), Fatou Jaw Manneh (Gambia), Yaghoub Yadali (Iran), and Dzamshid Karimov (Uzbekistan).

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