Writers at Risk

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This list is meant as a help for the theme "Writers at risk", Reading Globally, 2nd quarter 2016. I will add the link to the thread after I create it.
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512 besprekingen
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198 besprekingen
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6,846 leden
251 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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streamsong, charl08, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, rileyhuff, steller0707
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FlorenceArt: Memoir of the revolution in Iran, then exile to Europe.
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27,432 leden
569 besprekingen
½ 4.3
4 Members
dara85, streamsong, Dilara86, ahef1963
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Dilara86: Holocaust memoirs
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62 besprekingen
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70 besprekingen
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4 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M, rileyhuff
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ELiz_M: An autobiographical novel of the author's experience in a Japanese prison camp as a young boy during WWII.
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9,208 leden
119 besprekingen
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3 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86, rileyhuff
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Dilara86: slavery
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1,042 leden
35 besprekingen
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3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: A novel depicting the brutal, oppressive life of a Egyptian village girl. It was inspired by the author's contact with an imprisoned woman. Almost a decade later, the author herself was imprisoned and terrorized for her ongoing feminist activism.
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656 leden
18 besprekingen
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thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: "one of the greatest treatments of flight and exile in modern German writing...." written during the author's own flight from the Nazis.
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392 leden
6 besprekingen
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3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, spiphany
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kidzdoc: This novel was written on toilet paper during the author's year long imprisonment.
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342 leden
10 besprekingen
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3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: The author fled the violence tearing Yugoslavia apart in 1993. This novel is an attempt "to capture the slow and constant sense of loss and displacement caused by exile..."
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221 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.3
3 Members
chlorine, thorold, Dilara86
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chlorine: Haitian writer condemning Papa Doc's dicatorship. He was so angry that the family bought all the copies they could find to try and save her.
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21,790 leden
337 besprekingen
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2 Members
FlorenceArt, gypsysmom
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FlorenceArt: A memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland and escape to America.
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15,577 leden
312 besprekingen
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10,075 leden
143 besprekingen
½ 4.4
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
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8,655 leden
257 besprekingen
½ 4.5
2 Members
streamsong, FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: A second-hand account of the life of Spiegelman's father, a Polish Jew, as he was persecuted and later sent to Auschwitz.
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6,051 leden
98 besprekingen
½ 4.3
2 Members
thorold, FlorenceArt
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thorold: Italian-Jewish chemist tries to make sense of his experience of Auschwitz
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3,961 leden
113 besprekingen
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2 Members
kidzdoc, chlorine
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chlorine: Black man living as a free man in the North of the US illegally sold into slavery in the south.
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48 besprekingen
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2,170 leden
59 besprekingen
4.1
2 Members
dara85, streamsong
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1,331 leden
34 besprekingen
3.8
2 Members
thorold, ELiz_M
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1,159 leden
10 besprekingen
½ 3.6
2 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86
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Dilara86: slavery
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1,084 leden
43 besprekingen
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, spiphany
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thorold: Young people trying to stand up against Ceaucescu
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391 leden
6 besprekingen
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247 leden
5 besprekingen
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199 leden
6 besprekingen
3.9
2 Members
chlorine, spiphany
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chlorine: Hungarian woman and her family flee the communist regime and emigrate to Switzerland.
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118 leden
5 besprekingen
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2 Members
rebeccanyc, charl08
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rebeccanyc: Escaped from the Nazis only to be imprisoned for his work in the Free Hungary movement.
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76 besprekingen
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FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: I'm including this book, which is the sequel to Angela's Ashes, because it belongs to the theme more than the first, although I understand it's not as good (I haven't read it).
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6,059 leden
232 besprekingen
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dara85
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4,220 leden
38 besprekingen
3.9
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3,021 leden
34 besprekingen
3.9
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FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: A fictionalized account of the author's time in a Siberian prison camp.
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42 besprekingen
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thorold
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thorold: Italian dissident sent into internal exile by Mussolini
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59 besprekingen
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dara85
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1,843 leden
65 besprekingen
4.2
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chlorine
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chlorine: Woman living in Berlin at the end of WWII when Russians invaded. Had to endure multiple rapes and privations.
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1,583 leden
35 besprekingen
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ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: A collection of short stories loosely based on the author's experiences in various concentration camps.
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1,517 leden
32 besprekingen
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dara85
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chlorine
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chlorine: Woman in Africa submitted to genital mutilations. Managed to emigrate to London. Was a UN special ambassador in the fight againts femage genital mutilations.
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thorold
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thorold: Italian communist imprisoned under Mussolini, leading theoretician of European Marxism
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thorold
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thorold: Gay Cuban novelist's autobiography (imprisonment, exile, AIDS)
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57 besprekingen
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kidzdoc
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kidzdoc: This novel is about the persecution of the Romanian German population in Stalinist Russia, and its deportation to forced labor camps after World War II.
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17 besprekingen
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ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: from wiki: Behan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and he was also imprisoned in Republic of Ireland.
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3.8
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thorold
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thorold: Not read, but looks relevant
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18 besprekingen
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chlorine
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758 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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spiphany
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721 leden
16 besprekingen
3.9
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spiphany
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636 leden
21 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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chlorine
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chlorine: Young woman in Afghanistan forced to live under Taliban's rule. Escaped to France and wrote this book.
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dara85
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thorold
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thorold: US anarchist & feminist exiled to Russia and then to France
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thorold
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thorold: Russian poet who wrote about her encounters with the Stalinist terror
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spiphany
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Dilara86
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rebeccanyc
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rebeccanyc: Born in exile, died in exile, jailed twice by the French and once by the Soviets.
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rebeccanyc
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rebeccanyc: Written back and forth on sheets of paper when Fallada was imprisoned in a Nazi mental hospital for the criminally insane.
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ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: The first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies (West Indies) and publish a record of her experience.
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SassyLassy
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SassyLassy: Two writers living in exile
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4
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thorold
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thorold: The Mann family in exile
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thorold
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thorold: Czech dissident (later president) writes to his wife from prison
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charl08
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199 leden
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thorold
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thorold: On being exiled from a country that no longer exists (GDR) - also has a lot about other German political exiles in California, like the Manns
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ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: The main character, like the author, was a victim of China's "anti-rightest movement" in the mid-1950s. The novel depicts the banal brutality of the political system.
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FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: Memoir of the author's life as a Polish Jew persecuted both by the nazis and soviets.
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spiphany
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spiphany: Writings of the poet Ovid after his banishment from Rome in 8 AD.
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3.8
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thorold
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thorold: Scottish teenager who tried to assassinate Franco and spent time behind bars in Spain and in the UK
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149 leden
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FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: Memoir of a child and her family trying to survive in occupied Hungary.
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spiphany
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135 leden
1 bespreking
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spiphany
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126 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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dara85
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118 leden
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spiphany
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78 leden
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kidzdoc
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kidzdoc: Dowlatabadi composed this novel internally while he was imprisoned in Iran, and wrote it shortly after his release.
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spiphany
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spiphany: Andrei Sinyavsky (pseud. Abram Tertz) was tried and imprisoned for his Soviet-critical writing (The Trial Begins; On Socialist Realism). "A Voice from the Chorus" was based on his experiences while imprisoned.
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thorold
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thorold: British/Irish playwright persecuted because of his sexuality (this is a book about rather than by)
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thorold
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thorold: Russian 19th century socialist exiled to London
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ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: An account of the writer's arrest and trial, his prison dreams and fantasies.
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SassyLassy
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SassyLassy: Written by Bukharin while he was in prison before his execution under Stalin
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Dilara86
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Dilara86: Memoirs of a feminist anarchist who was imprisoned and sent to a penal colony
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thorold
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thorold: Two great German-Jewish poets exchange letters
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spiphany
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spiphany: Heym fled Nazi Germany to the US, where he fought with the Americans in WWII. Left the US in the 1950s because of his communist politics, emigrated to East Germany, where he was initially welcomed, but later banned from publishing due to his criticism of the government.
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Dilara86
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Dilara86: Written by a former Islamic State hostage
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thorold
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thorold: White journalist jailed for his part in an anti-apartheid group.
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thorold
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thorold: The author was imprisoned together with Mandela
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thorold
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thorold: Poet who was imprisoned by the regime in Malawi
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thorold
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thorold: German-Jewish poet who wrote about life after the Holocaust
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thorold
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thorold: Left-wing political exiles from the Continent in 19th century London
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thorold
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thorold: Play by-and-about two South African political prisoners on Robben Island staging Antigone
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door Tian
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spiphany
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spiphany: Biermann's expatriation by the East Germany government provoked protests by many prominent German writers.
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thorold
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thorold: Dutch journalist stuck in revolutionary Russia
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6,113 leden
59 besprekingen
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