Paris, June 4: Tribute to Imprisoned Writers

Paris, June 4: Tribute to Imprisoned Writers / Angel Santiesteban
Posted on June 4, 2013

Editor's note: This post is in French and is only partially translated here.

Text of notice:
In solidarity with the imprisoned Chinese writer Li Bifeng, the
International Literary Festival of Berlin is calling on intellectuals
and artists, schools and universities, media, theaters and other
cultural institutions around the world to organize readings, June 4,
2013, on the occasion the sad anniversary of the crackdown in Tiananmen
Square, and within the framework of the World Wide Reading Day on the
theme of resistance.

In response to this appeal, the House of Writers and Literature,
Biennial of Poets in Val de Marne, the French Pen Club, the Wandering
Word and Poetry Market invited writers and poets living in France to
support a writer or a poet "gagged in their own country," by reading
their texts.

Performance by Armand Gatti, Serge Pey and Chiara Mulas followed by
readings:

Tahar Bekri (Tunisia) for Mohamed Ibn Dhib (Qatar)

Yves Boudier (France) for Li Bifeng (China)

Francis Combes for Mumia Abu Jamal (United States )

Jean-Luc Despax (France) for Angye Gaona (Colombia)

Marc Delouze (France) for Gao Xingjian (China)

Jacques Demarcq for Trung Nguyen Van Tuc and Phan Ngoc Tuan (all three
of Vietnam)

Jean Pierre Faye (France) to Melissa Patiño Hinostroza (Peru)

Irene Gayraud (France) for Angel Santiesteban Prats (Cuba)

Jabbar Hussin (Iraq) for Bei Dao (China)

Werner Lambersy (Belgium) for Parviz Khazraï (Iran)

Mazen Maarouf (Palestine) for Rasha Awad, Haidar al-Mukashfi, Nur
al-Ahmad al-Nur (all three of Sudan)

Jean-Baptiste Para (France) for Alireza Roshan (Iran)

Anne-Marie Garat (France) will also join the party.

[Angel Sebastian-Prats is included in the tribute]

"Among the readings that will be held, one will be for Ángel
Santiesteban-Prats, unjustly imprisoned in Cuba by the Castro
dictatorship, for the simple "crime" of expressing himself freely in his
blog.

His story, The Moon, A Death and a Piece of Bread, will be read by the
French poet and writer Irène Gayraud.

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