Saturday, December 14, 2013

Could Russia Return to Soviet-era Style Censorship?


Turkmenistan's Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, aka Arkadag (The Protector), has joined Gaddafi, Mussolini, and Saddam Hussein in the line of dictator who wrote fiction.
Russian writers are battling a new government-led Literature Assembly, which they view as an effort to control over authors and a possible return to censorship.
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In this video interview, author Martin Walker discusses his bestselling "Bruno, Chief of Police" mysteries, the real-life inspiration for his fiction, and more.
From the Archives:
Title production hit 56,000 copies for the first six months of 2012, though overall sales are lower, according to news out of this year’s Moscow International Book Fair.

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