Chinese Government Bars Writer Liao Yiwu From Attending PEN Festival in New York
PEN American Center today condemned the Chinese government’s refusal to allow celebrated author Liao Yiwu to attend the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, which opens Monday in… More
Liao Yiwu: Grounded in China
The last time we checked in on the great Chinese writer, oral historian, and folk musician, Liao Yiwu (author of The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the… More
Writer Liao Yiwu Finally Permitted to Travel Outside China
PEN American Center today welcomed the Chinese government’s decision to lift its travel ban against renowned writer and Independent Chinese PEN Center Board Member Liao Yiwu, who is traveling… More
Liao Yiwu stopped from attending German literary festival
On Monday, outspoken Chinese poet Liao Yiwu had barely boarded his flight from Chengdu to Cologne when he was ordered to get off. Liao was planning to attend a… More
For 13th Time, Critic of China’s Government Is Barred From Leaving
BEIJING — Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly Monday to a literary festival… More
Chinese poet Liao Yiwu blocked from going to German festival
Liao Yiwu, a 52-year-old writer who was jailed for four years after recording himself wailing and reading a poem about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, said he had already… More
Liao Yiwu’s Persistent Voice
The Chinese writer Liao Yiwu is a best-seller in Germany. So it’s absurd for the Chinese government to imagine it can prevent him from being heard there. But yesterday… More
Chinese Writer Liao Yiwu Prevented From Traveling to German Book Festival
PEN American Center today expressed outrage that writer Liao Yiwu was removed from a plane he had boarded in Chengdu, southwestern China, to travel to a literature festival in… More
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