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SUMMARY:Shankari Chandran at Sydney Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:We live in an era of unprecedented access to information\, yet power and authority often present fiction as fact. \nAs a writer and lawyer\, Shankari Chandran recognises fiction’s limitations in delivering justice. But her interviews with survivors of Sri Lankan genocide inform her novels\, which provide a powerful opportunity to explore and reveal stories\, history\, war and injustice. Fiction is a crucial space for truth-telling\, especially when official channels are blocked. \nIn this PEN Sydney lecture\, hear the Miles Franklin Literary Award winner speak to her use of fiction as a living\, communal archive. \n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Join us for this free event at the Sydney Writers Festival on Friday 23 May at 1pm. \n\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Book Now
URL:https://pen.org.au/event/shankari-chandran-pen-lecture-fictional-space/
LOCATION:Carriageworks\, 245 Wilson St\, Eveleigh\, NSW\, 2015\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2024
DESCRIPTION:Recent high-profile prosecutions of whistleblowers – Witness K\, David McBride\, Richard Boyle have shown that blowing the whistle in Australia can land you in jail. What is the cost to our democracy? Keeping the bastards honest has never been more dangerous for whistleblowers and the journalists who bring their stories to light. \nFormer Senator Rex Patrick – advocate for whistleblowers \nPeter McCutcheon – Senior ABC Journalist on 730 \nAnneliese Cooper – Lawyer with the Whistleblower Project \nModerator – Michael West – Journalist \nJoin us for PEN Sydney’s annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer \n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Join us on Zoom 7pm AEDT on 14 November . This is a free event. \n\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Book Now
URL:https://pen.org.au/event/whistleblowers-behind-bars-day-of-imprisoned-writer-pen-meaa/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:PEN Lecture: Writing from Prison in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:Sean Turnell spent almost two years in Myanmar’s terrifying Insein Prison\, accused of being a spy. Ma Thida was also incarcerated there\, where\, denied medical treatment\, she came very close to dying. \nHow did they survive? What hope do these important players in Myanmar’s government and politics hold for the return of democracy three years after the military seized power in a coup? In conversation with Catherine Renshaw. \n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Join us at the Sydney Writers Festival for this fascinating conversation. This is a free event. \n\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Book Now
URL:https://pen.org.au/event/pen-lecture-writing-from-prison-in-myanmar/
LOCATION:Home\, 245 Wilson St\, Eveleigh\, NSW\, 2015\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231118T180000
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SUMMARY:Day of the Imprisoned Writer
DESCRIPTION:When Behrouz Boochani became the Voice of Manus he revealed the chaos and cruelty of a secret regime and made a nation take notice. But five years on from finding freedom in New Zealand who is Behrouz Boochani now?  \nIn this wide-ranging conversation\, he reflects on his years in detention capturing in words and on film the madness of Manus\, his more recent writing – including his book Freedom\, Only Freedom – his poetry and playwrighting\, and as a Kurdish activist his involvement in the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ uprising in Iran \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				What happens to imprisoned writers when they are no longer in prison?\nBehrouz will be talking with Ben Doherty – International Affairs correspondent for The Guardian – for PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer. \nBehrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer\, journalist\, scholar\, cultural advocate and filmmaker. Boochani was a writer and editor for the Kurdish language magazine Werya in Iran. He is an Honorary Member of PEN International; and winner of an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award\, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award\, and the Anna Politkovskaya award for journalism. He publishes regularly with The Guardian\, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper\, Huffington Post\, New Matilda\, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Boochani is also co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film Chauka\, Please Tell Us The Time. His book\, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature in addition to the Nonfiction category. His most recent book is Freedom\, Only Freedom. \nBen Doherty\, International affairs correspondent for The Guardian\, has reported across the Asia-Pacific\, including postings in Southeast and South Asia. His work focuses on human rights and humanitarian issues\, and forced migration. He holds master’s degrees from Oxford University and UNSW\, and is the author of a novel\, Nagaland. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the State Library of NSW. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Book Now
URL:https://pen.org.au/event/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer/
LOCATION:Home\, 245 Wilson St\, Eveleigh\, NSW\, 2015\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Words In A War – Writers on the Russia Ukraine War
DESCRIPTION:Where is freedom of speech in the Russian Ukraine war? Has truth been a victim of the conflict?How are Russian and Ukrainian writers\, journalists and poets responding to the war?What are the challenges of covering the war when there is so much at stake?How have both governments tried to shape the truth? \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Join this exclusive conversation with:\nDmitry Bykov is a prominent Russian-Jewish writer\, poet\, critic and satirist who has taken a strong political stance against Putin and against the war. He has been one of the top influencers of the Russian opposition for more than ten years\, since joining the Opposition Council\, along with Alexey Navalny. His criticism of Putin’s Russia and its Soviet period had almost cost him his life – he was allegedly poisoned with the same toxic agent that was used in an attempt to kill Navalny. \nZoya Sheftalovich is a contributing editor of the POLITICO news website\, covering the war in Ukraine. She was born in Ukraine\, before moving to Australia as part of the post-Soviet diaspora in the early 1990s. Zoya has written about her experiences growing up in Ukraine through the Chernobyl disaster and the fall of the Soviet Union. She is a two-time Walkley Award finalist. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Book Now
URL:https://pen.org.au/event/words-in-a-war-writers-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/
LOCATION:Alexandria Town Hall\, 73 Garden St\, Alexandria\, NSW\, 2015\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Tales of the Wind - A night of Uyghur poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join PEN Syden and the Uyghur community for a celebration of poetry\, music and food.  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Guests include:\nAhmatjan Osman\, Fatima Seyyah and Mamtimin Ala \nMoney raised goes to the World Uyghur Writers Union. \n\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Book Now
URL:https://pen.org.au/event/tales-of-the-wind-a-night-of-uyghur-poetry/
LOCATION:The Turkish Cultural Centre\, 33 Gelibolu Parade\, Auburn\, NSW\, 2144\, Australia
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