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Arundhati Roy: “Literature provides shelter”

In this year’s PEN America Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, Arundhati Roy spoke about the power of literature to challenge governments. The post Arundhati Roy: “Literature provides shelter” appeared first on Guernica.
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature 2019

Every year PEN America presents its World Voices Festival, a literary festival in New York City featuring at least 200 writers and artists from over fifty countries in conversation about some of the most important literary, cultural, and political topics of our age. This year the event spanned six days, from May 6th to May 12th, and Guernica

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