Tag: Writers

Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: “I Am Guilty”

In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand about his work, his political views, and his critics. SPIEGEL: Unspeakable things happen in many of your novels. In “The Garlic Ballads,” for example, a pregnant woman, already in labor, hangs herself. Still, “Frog” seems to be your sternest b

February 27, 2013 8:19 PM

‘The Dark Road’ and Ma Jian on Censorship

Following the UK release of his latest novel, The Dark Road, the Index on Censorship talks to exiled writer Ma Jian about

May 5, 2013 5:52 PM

Salman Rushdie, Murong Xuecun on Censorship

British Indian author Salman Rushdie became an icon of free expression after his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses garnered h

May 3, 2013 2:03 PM

Police Silence Visitors to Executed Dissident’s Grave

Monday marked the 45th anniversary of the execution of Lin Zhao, a dissident who wrote criticisms of the government in he

April 29, 2013 9:28 PM

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