Writers at Risk

Kuvaus
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.
1
tekijä: Anne Frank
28,163 jäsentä
512 arvostelua
4.1
2
12,872 jäsentä
198 arvostelua
4
3
6,846 jäsentä
251 arvostelua
½ 4.3
6 Members
streamsong, charl08, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, rileyhuff, steller0707
Selitykset
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the revolution in Iran, then exile to Europe.
4
tekijä: Elie Wiesel
27,432 jäsentä
569 arvostelua
½ 4.3
4 Members
dara85, streamsong, Dilara86, ahef1963
Selitykset
Dilara86: Holocaust memoirs
5
4,842 jäsentä
62 arvostelua
½ 4.3
6
tekijä: J. G. Ballard
3,717 jäsentä
70 arvostelua
4
4 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M, rileyhuff
Selitykset
ELiz_M: An autobiographical novel of the author's experience in a Japanese prison camp as a young boy during WWII.
7
9,208 jäsentä
119 arvostelua
4
3 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86, rileyhuff
Selitykset
Dilara86: slavery
8
1,042 jäsentä
35 arvostelua
3.9
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M
Selitykset
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.
9
tekijä: Anna Seghers
656 jäsentä
18 arvostelua
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Selitykset
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.
10
392 jäsentä
6 arvostelua
3.8
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, spiphany
Selitykset
kidzdoc: This novel was written on toilet paper during the author's year long imprisonment.
11
342 jäsentä
10 arvostelua
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Selitykset
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..."
12
221 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
½ 4.3
3 Members
chlorine, thorold, Dilara86
Selitykset
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.
13
tekijä: Frank McCourt
21,790 jäsentä
337 arvostelua
4
2 Members
FlorenceArt, gypsysmom
Selitykset
FlorenceArt: A memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland and escape to America.
14
tekijä: Viktor Frankl
15,577 jäsentä
312 arvostelua
4.2
15
10,075 jäsentä
143 arvostelua
½ 4.4
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
16
8,655 jäsentä
257 arvostelua
½ 4.5
2 Members
streamsong, FlorenceArt
Selitykset
FlorenceArt: A second-hand account of the life of Spiegelman's father, a Polish Jew, as he was persecuted and later sent to Auschwitz.
17
tekijä: Primo Levi
6,051 jäsentä
98 arvostelua
½ 4.3
2 Members
thorold, FlorenceArt
Selitykset
thorold: Italian-Jewish chemist tries to make sense of his experience of Auschwitz
18
3,961 jäsentä
113 arvostelua
4.2
2 Members
kidzdoc, chlorine
Selitykset
chlorine: Black man living as a free man in the North of the US illegally sold into slavery in the south.
19
3,522 jäsentä
48 arvostelua
4.1
20
tekijä: Loung Ung
2,170 jäsentä
59 arvostelua
4.1
2 Members
dara85, streamsong
21
1,331 jäsentä
34 arvostelua
3.8
2 Members
thorold, ELiz_M
22
1,159 jäsentä
10 arvostelua
½ 3.6
2 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86
Selitykset
Dilara86: slavery
23
tekijä: Herta Müller
1,084 jäsentä
43 arvostelua
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, spiphany
Selitykset
thorold: Young people trying to stand up against Ceaucescu
24
391 jäsentä
6 arvostelua
½ 3.6
25
247 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
½ 4.3
26
200 jäsentä
6 arvostelua
3.9
2 Members
chlorine, spiphany
Selitykset
chlorine: Hungarian woman and her family flee the communist regime and emigrate to Switzerland.
27
118 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
½ 4.6
2 Members
rebeccanyc, charl08
Selitykset
rebeccanyc: Escaped from the Nazis only to be imprisoned for his work in the Free Hungary movement.
28
tekijä: Frank McCourt
7,920 jäsentä
76 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Member
FlorenceArt
Selitykset
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).
29
6,059 jäsentä
232 arvostelua
4
Member
dara85
30
4,220 jäsentä
38 arvostelua
3.9
31
3,021 jäsentä
34 arvostelua
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
Selitykset
FlorenceArt: A fictionalized account of the author's time in a Siberian prison camp.
32
tekijä: Carlo Levi
1,974 jäsentä
42 arvostelua
4
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Italian dissident sent into internal exile by Mussolini
33
1,935 jäsentä
59 arvostelua
3.9
Member
dara85
34
tekijä: Marta Hillers
1,843 jäsentä
65 arvostelua
4.2
Member
chlorine
Selitykset
chlorine: Woman living in Berlin at the end of WWII when Russians invaded. Had to endure multiple rapes and privations.
35
1,583 jäsentä
35 arvostelua
4.2
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: A collection of short stories loosely based on the author's experiences in various concentration camps.
36
1,517 jäsentä
32 arvostelua
4.2
37
tekijä: Miep Gies
1,477 jäsentä
30 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
38
tekijä: Nien Cheng
1,469 jäsentä
20 arvostelua
4.2
39
tekijä: Waris Dirie
1,360 jäsentä
34 arvostelua
3.8
Member
chlorine
Selitykset
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.
40
1,161 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
4.1
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Italian communist imprisoned under Mussolini, leading theoretician of European Marxism
41
1,102 jäsentä
18 arvostelua
4.1
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Gay Cuban novelist's autobiography (imprisonment, exile, AIDS)
42
tekijä: Herta Müller
979 jäsentä
57 arvostelua
4.1
Member
kidzdoc
Selitykset
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.
43
tekijä: Brendan Behan
944 jäsentä
17 arvostelua
4
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
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.
44
794 jäsentä
28 arvostelua
3.8
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Not read, but looks relevant
45
tekijä: Romain Gary
772 jäsentä
18 arvostelua
4
Member
chlorine
46
758 jäsentä
11 arvostelua
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
47
tekijä: Imre Kertész
721 jäsentä
16 arvostelua
3.9
Member
spiphany
48
tekijä: Latifa
636 jäsentä
21 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Member
chlorine
Selitykset
chlorine: Young woman in Afghanistan forced to live under Taliban's rule. Escaped to France and wrote this book.
49
635 jäsentä
11 arvostelua
4.2
Member
dara85
50
tekijä: Emma Goldman
597 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
4.2
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: US anarchist & feminist exiled to Russia and then to France
51
565 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
4.2
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Russian poet who wrote about her encounters with the Stalinist terror
52
527 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
4.1
Member
spiphany
53
526 jäsentä
4.1
54
tekijä: Herta Müller
513 jäsentä
30 arvostelua
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
55
469 jäsentä
6 arvostelua
4
56
tekijä: Victor Serge
448 jäsentä
7 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Member
rebeccanyc
Selitykset
rebeccanyc: Born in exile, died in exile, jailed twice by the French and once by the Soviets.
57
tekijä: Hans Fallada
432 jäsentä
13 arvostelua
3.9
Member
rebeccanyc
Selitykset
rebeccanyc: Written back and forth on sheets of paper when Fallada was imprisoned in a Nazi mental hospital for the criminally insane.
58
tekijä: Mary Prince
385 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: The first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies (West Indies) and publish a record of her experience.
59
283 jäsentä
15 arvostelua
3.8
Member
SassyLassy
Selitykset
SassyLassy: Two writers living in exile
60
tekijä: Klaus Mann
279 jäsentä
7 arvostelua
4
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: The Mann family in exile
61
tekijä: Václav Havel
237 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Czech dissident (later president) writes to his wife from prison
62
212 jäsentä
9 arvostelua
½ 4.5
63
tekijä: Wole Soyinka
211 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
64
tekijä: Christa Wolf
199 jäsentä
7 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Selitykset
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
65
194 jäsentä
6 arvostelua
3.2
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
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.
66
190 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
½ 4.6
Member
FlorenceArt
Selitykset
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the author's life as a Polish Jew persecuted both by the nazis and soviets.
67
tekijä: Ovid
170 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
3.9
Member
spiphany
Selitykset
spiphany: Writings of the poet Ovid after his banishment from Rome in 8 AD.
68
167 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
3.8
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Scottish teenager who tried to assassinate Franco and spent time behind bars in Spain and in the UK
69
tekijä: Magda Denes
149 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
Selitykset
FlorenceArt: Memoir of a child and her family trying to survive in occupied Hungary.
70
tekijä: Daniil Kharms
144 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
71
135 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
4.1
Member
spiphany
72
126 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
73
118 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
4.2
Member
spiphany
74
78 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Member
kidzdoc
Selitykset
kidzdoc: Dowlatabadi composed this novel internally while he was imprisoned in Iran, and wrote it shortly after his release.
75
tekijä: Fang Lizhi
75 jäsentä
19 arvostelua
½ 4.4
76
74 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
3.8
Member
spiphany
Selitykset
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.
77
tekijä: Alan Sinfield
73 jäsentä
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: British/Irish playwright persecuted because of his sexuality (this is a book about rather than by)
78
69 jäsentä
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Russian 19th century socialist exiled to London
79
67 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 2.5
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: An account of the writer's arrest and trial, his prison dreams and fantasies.
80
63 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
½ 3.7
81
55 jäsentä
3.8
Member
SassyLassy
Selitykset
SassyLassy: Written by Bukharin while he was in prison before his execution under Stalin
82
tekijä: Nic Maclellan
53 jäsentä
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Selitykset
Dilara86: Memoirs of a feminist anarchist who was imprisoned and sent to a penal colony
83
tekijä: Paul Celan
45 jäsentä
3.8
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Two great German-Jewish poets exchange letters
84
tekijä: Stefan Heym
44 jäsentä
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany
Selitykset
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.
85
38 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 3.3
Member
Dilara86
Selitykset
Dilara86: Written by a former Islamic State hostage
86
tekijä: Hugh Lewin
34 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: White journalist jailed for his part in an anti-apartheid group.
87
31 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
4
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: The author was imprisoned together with Mandela
88
tekijä: Jack Mapanje
26 jäsentä
4
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Poet who was imprisoned by the regime in Malawi
89
tekijä: Nelly Sachs
21 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 4.6
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: German-Jewish poet who wrote about life after the Holocaust
90
tekijä: Josiah Henson
15 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
5
91
13 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Left-wing political exiles from the Continent in 19th century London
92
tekijä: Athol Fugard
9 jäsentä
4
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Play by-and-about two South African political prisoners on Robben Island staging Antigone
93
tekijä: Tian
7 jäsentä
4
94
tekijä: Wolf Biermann
7 jäsentä
Member
spiphany
Selitykset
spiphany: Biermann's expatriation by the East Germany government provoked protests by many prominent German writers.
95
tekijä: Odette Keun
3 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Selitykset
thorold: Dutch journalist stuck in revolutionary Russia
96
tekijä: Milan Kundera
6,113 jäsentä
59 arvostelua
3.9
97
1,245 jäsentä
50 arvostelua
½ 3.5
98
1,054 jäsentä
20 arvostelua
½ 4.3
99
758 jäsentä
15 arvostelua
4.1
100
357 jäsentä
13 arvostelua
3.9