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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The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
tekijä: Wole Soyinka
213 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 3.7
Global Rank 63
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Paholainen ristillä
tekijä: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
394 jäsentä
6 arvostelua
3.8
Global Rank 10
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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Iloiset päiväni helvetissä
tekijä: György Faludy
118 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
½ 4.6
Global Rank 27
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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The Complete Persepolis
tekijä: Marjane Satrapi
6,872 jäsentä
252 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Global Rank 3
6 Members
streamsong, charl08, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, rileyhuff, steller0707
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FlorenceArt: Memoir of the revolution in Iran, then exile to Europe.
5
Auringon valtakunta
tekijä: J. G. Ballard
3,730 jäsentä
70 arvostelua
4
Global Rank 6
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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Nainen nollapisteessä
tekijä: Nawal El Saadawi
1,046 jäsentä
36 arvostelua
3.9
Global Rank 8
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.