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Home > 4/17/05

Banned Voices

April 17, 2005 | KGB Bar | New York City

Margaret Atwood, Antoine Audouard, Anouar Benmalek, Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Shahrnush Parsipur, Francine Prose, Wole Soyinka, and Huang Xiang read the work of writers who have been silenced.

 

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Introduction by Antoine Audouard
Margaret Atwood reads “Seeking the True Colour of Things” by Nawal El Saadawi
Amy Hempel and Francine Prose perform Behzti by Gurpeet Kaur Bhatti
Anouar Benmalek reads work by Tahar Djaout and Said Mekbel
Wole Soyinka reads from The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
Huang Xiang reads his poetry
Shahrnush Parsipur reads from Women Without Men
Antoine Audouard reads from No Man's Land by Duong Thu Huong
Rick Moody reads from “After You, God” by Raul Rivero


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