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Kopenhaga

Autumn. A season that suits me particularly well. For several days now, I haven’t been outside. I have an excellent reason: storm, heavy rain, the risk of getting a… More

Quiet Chaos

I do spinning. Yolanda’s cellphone starts ringing in the nick of time: it forces her to walk a few steps away from me to answer it, and I can… More

Colonies

Creoles, MestizosSince it so happens you are strange and Iam strange, together we will shock the world.Families as they stroll by will point at us,and we’ll be famous, quite… More

Summer Rain

Sabri was astonished to see the young woman absently smiling in the pouring rain as she passed through the gate and touched, almost caressed, the trunk of the withered… More

Screwed!

Suddenly it occurred to me I wouldn’t be spending today in the fields either, bent double cutting the wheat. I felt a little surge of happiness, but it quickly… More

PEN Appeal: Ahmet ??k and Nedim ?ener

March 7, 2011 Mr. Sadullah Ergin Minister of Justice 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers… More

Departure

“What’s this soup made of?”“No way of knowing … The cook probably doesn’t even know.”The waitress had just finished filling two bowls with a yellowish liquid: small pieces of… More

PEN Appeal: Abdul-Jalil Alsingace

March 9, 2011 His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa King of Bahrain Office of His Majesty the King P.O.Box 555 Rifa’a Palace Kingdom of Bahrain Fax: +973 176 64 587 Sheikh Khalid bin Ali… More