Day of Imprisoned Writer

PEN South Africa, in partnership with the Institute for Creative Arts, has organised Day of the Imprisoned Writer event on Friday, the 15th of November 2018 - to commemorate writers who are serving sentences and awaiting trails for their works at the Hiddingh Hall in Hiddingh Campus of the University of Cape Town. It is the annual event, and they always have an empty seat that represents the imprisoned writers.

The writers who were commemorated this year were Wael Abbas, Dawit Isaak, Miroslava Breach Velducea, Shahidul Alam and Oleg Sentsov. The readings were presented by Rustum Kozain, Desiree Lewis, Yewande Omotoso, Wamuwi Mbao and Nick Mulgrew. 

To read about the arrests and sentences of the commemorated jailed writers, kindly visit PEN South Africa webpage: http://pensouthafrica.co.za




Source: http://pensouthafrica.co.za