Canada Reads Friday, January 27 at Toronto Reference Library

PEN Canada works on behalf of writers, at home and abroad, who have been forced into silence for writing the truth as they see it. PEN Canada is for debate and against silence. They lobby governments in Canada and internationally; organize petitions; send letters, faxes and postcards for the release of persecuted writers; and conduct public awareness campaigns about freedom of expression. They work for the release of imprisoned writers internationally, against censorship nationally and for networking and professional opportunities for writers living in exile in Canada.

Their centre has between 25-30 Honorary Members in many countries around the world on whose behalf we work so that they are released from prison and their voices heard once again.
 

This Friday, January 27, 2012, at 7pm at the Toronto Reference Library, PEN Writer-in-Exile committee member and author of Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat, will be interviewed onstage as part of CBC’s Canada Reads ongoing events. Nemat will be talking about her life growing-up in Iran as well as bringing attention to two compelling and urgent cases of fellow Evin prisoners, Saeed Malekpour and Hamid Ghassemi-Shall.

Please show your support and solidarity by stopping by.

WHEN: Friday, January, 27, 2012
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St.

Paul Collins, author of Mack Dunstan’s Inferno / Mystery of Everyman’s Way

 

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