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Gotovac in PEN's Writers in Prison Committee
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time: 8.2.2010.
organiser: PEN Croatia's P.E.N. has reported that it has proposed the inclusion of Vlado Gotovac into the selection of 50 writers to be made on the occasion of marking the 50th anniversary International PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.Vladimir "Vlado" Gotovac was a Croatian poet, philosopher and liberal politician. Read here Vladimir Gotovac's full biography 'Essentially an urban poet despite a rural upbringing, Gotovac became identified with a highly philosophical poetry deeply committed to the integrity of the individual and the need to preserve democratic freedom' Read here full article The Croatian P.E.N. Centre was founded in 1927, and its members joined international intellectual forces against the threat of Nazism at the historical P.E.N. Congress in Dubrovnik in 1933. Our centre has organized the world congress of writers in Dubrovnik 1993 and three regional conferences (Split 1997, Zagreb 2001, Pula 2002). Croatian P.E.N, among other activities, organizes the international Literature Live Festival. The idea of Literature Live Festival is closely connected to the new trend in International P.E.N. towards affirming the power of the literary word worldwide. The Festival features 30 world authors per year and presents their works in interactive, interview-type sessions. Other project segments are: performance, poetry & music, and round-table discussions on different topics promoting the idea of inter-cultural dialogue. Some of the contemporary writers present at the Festival so far include Herta Müller, Peter Waterhouse, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Pascal Bruckner, Abdellatif Laâbi, Yang Lian, Jack Hirshman, Jo Shapcott, Francine Prose, Mauruzio Cucchi, Willem van Toorn, Tomaž Šalamun, Irvine Welsh, and many others. The Writers in Exile Network started life in 1999 as a result of resolutions passed at the 1997 and 1998 International PEN Congresses that called for an in-depth study of the overall situation of exiled writers and an analysis of the best ways International PEN could be involved. Previous to this, a preliminary study had been carried out by Thomas von Vegesack in 1995 identifying a need for more communication on the issue of exiled writers.Read more... |
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(D.H., 08.02.2010) |
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