Writers under siege: voices of freedom from around the world : a PEN anthology

Foreword / Sir Tom Stoppard

Introduction / Carole Seymour-Jones

A note on selections / Lucy Popescu

Harold Pinter / Death

Ken Saro-Wiwa / From his last television interview

A minor mistake in Evin Prison / Reza Baraheni, Iran

A true story of April Fools Day, translated by Ben Carrdus / Jiang Qisheng, China

Extract from time for prison, times for freedom, translated by Judy Cumberbatch / Ali al-Dumaini, Saudi Arabia

Extracts from Mirrors of absence, translated by Sinan Antoon / Faraj Ahmad Bayrakdar, Syria

Extract from Asiyes story translated by Richard McKane / Asiye Güzel, Turkey

Chiquitín translated by Amanda Hopkinson Augusto Ernesto Llosa Giraldo, Peru

Letter, translated by Human Rights Watch / Mamadali Makhmudov, Uzbekistan

Prison translated by Mandy Garner; Letter to PEN, translated by Maria Delgado / Yndamiro Restano, Cuba

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Extract from We make death easy, translated by Nilou Mobasser / Faraj Sarkohi, Iran

Poems translated by Ruth Fainlight / Angel Cuadra, Cuba

Extract from The philosophy of my life, translated by Carole Seymour-Jones / Yury Bandazhevsky, Belarus

Extract from Conscience on trial / Koigi wa Wamwere, Kenya

Poems / Chris Abani, Nigeria

Letter to Arthur Miller, translated by Amanda Hopkinson / José Revueltas, Mexico

Poems, translated by Chip Rolley, Sarah Maguire and Heather Inwood / Shi Tao, China

Letter, translated by Cecilie Torjussen / Sihem Ben Sedrine, Tunisia

Silent impatience / Javier Tuanama Valera, Peru

Poems, translated by Richard McKane / Grigory Pasko, Russia

Sacrificial therapy, translated by Ales Kudrycki / Andrej Dynko, Belarus

Poems, translated by Trevor Carolan and Frederick Young / Thich Tue Sy, Vietnam

Letters / Hwang Dae-Kwon, South Korea

What I'm Doing / Khin Zaw Win, Burma

Letter / Ali Reza Jabari, Iran

The freedom, translated by Hans-Joachim Lankstch / Flora Brovina, former Yugoslavia

Letter / Liu Jinsheng, China

Death

Extract from his last work, On the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa / Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria

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Undying gardens, translated by A. K. Ramanujan / Thiagarajah Selvanithy, Sri Lanka

The death of the poet, from the Crowned Wanderer, translated by Rachel Segonds / Rakhim Esenov, Turkmenistan

A man dies, Cuba, 1964, translated by Ruth Fainlight / Angel Cuadra, Cuba

Extracts from Dungeon of ghosts, translated by Nilou Mobasser / Akbar Ganji, Iran

Poems, translated by Hans-Joachim Lankstch / Flora Brovina, former Yugoslavia

Extract from thunderstorm in the night, translated by Bernard F. Cleary / Harry Wu, China

Mango Chutney / Chris Abani, Nigeria

Once I Had a Home / Gai Tho, India/Tibet

Exile

Family picture in Havana, translated by Diana Alvarez-Amell; After you, God, from Pruebas de contacto, translated by Anna Kushner / Raúl Rivero, Cuba

Cries of the cricket, translated by Trevor Mostyn / Jean-Louis Ntadi, Congo-Brazzaville

Poems, translated by Ren Powell and Mansur Rajih / Mansur Muhammad Ahmad Rajih, Yemen

The Long Road / Cheikh Kone, Ivory Coast

Extract from Mother, translated by Taslima Nasrin and Warren Allen Smith / Taslima Nasrin, Bangladesh

The Burdens of creativity in Africa: Reflections / Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwe

The Freedom to write

Essay, translated by Arch Tait / Anna Politkovskaya, Russia

PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to write memorial lecture, translated by Maureen freely / Orhan Pamuk, Turkey

Freedom from fear / Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma

Extract from speech / Paul Kamara, Sierra Leone

Light a myriad candles: an open letter, translated by Ben Carrdus / Jiang Qisheng, China

A novel response, translated by Vicky Bowman / Ma Thida, Burma

Extract from speech / Hrank Dink, Turkey

Host not found / Hari Kunzru

Letters / Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria.