Liu Xiaobo - Your Lifelong Prisoner
We would like to share with you a poem written by Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo to his wife Liu Xia. Xiaobo is not free to read this work for himself so it falls to the other poets of this world to be a voice for those who are silenced. I recorded this poem as I believe that while any writer is not free to write or be read no writer is free.
Xiaobo is currently in prison in China for 'inciting subversion of state power,' while Xia is under house arrest without charge. On 20 March 2012, the International Literature Festival Berlin (ilb) is organising the second annual Worldwide Reading for imprisoned Chinese writer and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo. The goal of the worldwide reading is to share Liu Xiaobo’s works, and to remind the world that a humanist, a freedom fighter, an outstanding writer, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner is still in behind bars, and to protest against it. More info from EnglishPEN
Note - by writers I mean writers who are writing literature such as fiction, poetry and non-fiction which is not racist or does not promote hatred.
Kindest
John
3 comments:
Beautiful and moving reading, John.
I'm going to post this on my site, as I know some of my readers will not be aware of Liu Xiabo.
Thanks so much for doing this, John. If others are keen to follow in your footsteps and show solidarity with Liu Xiaobo, there are more ideas of how to do so here: http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/wipcnews/penhonoursimprisonedwritersoninternationalhumanrightsday10december/
Thanks again for your support!
Many thanks John
I've added the link to my blog, hope it's OK
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