China: The Poet in an Unknown Prison
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By Liu Xiaobo
In response to China's Charter 08 (January 15, 2009) On April 16, the PEN American Centernamed the Beijing-based writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo the recipientof the 2009 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. The awardhonors international literary figures who have been persecuted orimprisoned for exercising or defending the right to freedom ofexpression. Liu is a literary critic, activist, andpoet who participated in the pro- democracy movement in China in thespring of 1989. After the...
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