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Nay Phone Latt Receives 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award

Nay Phone Latt, 29, is an influential Burmese blogger, political dissident, and poet. His Burmese language blog, which is not explicitly political, has been praised by foreign media such as the BBC for providing invaluable news regarding the military crackdown in Burma in 2007 during a period of particularly strong censorship.

He was arrested on January 29, 2008, following the monks’ protests in Rangoon and elsewhere in the country, and is serving a 12-year sentence for distributing news and views via his blog.

[bio and case history]

RECENT PRESS RELEASES

April 28, 2010:
Imprisoned Burmese Blogger Nay Phone Latt Honored in New York

Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Bill Moyers, Walter Mosley, and Patti Smith were among the more than 500 PEN luminaries and supporters joining PEN American Center last night in honoring Nay Phone Latt, one of Burma’s leading bloggers, with the 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award at its annual Literary Gala at the Museum of Natural History in New York. [more]

More news:

April 14, 2010:
Imprisoned Burmese Blogger Nay Phone Latt to Receive Top PEN Honor

September 24, 2008:
Writers Commemorate Burmese Uprisings, Rally for Jailed Colleagues

NAY PHONE LATT'S WRITING

Irrawaddy Flowing on the Road
Translated by Than Than Win

Me and My Dreams, Part 1
Translated by Anonymous

Nay Phone Latt's Blog
(in Burmese)

ADDITIONAL NEWS COVERAGE

Heroes: Nay Phone Latt
by Salman Rushdie
from TIME Magazine

Mike Allen and Nay Phone Latt
by George Packer
from The New Yorker

Burmese blogger wins top US award
by Francis Wade
from The Democratic Voice of Burma

Burma blogger jailed for 20 years
From the BBC

Burma regime jails pro-democracy activists for 65 years
by Ian MacKinnon
from The Guardian

Sneaking in Where Thugs Rule
by Nicholas Kristof
from The New York Time


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