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PEN New England & the Cambridge Forum
present...
FAIRLY UNBALANCED:
Writing Political Satire in the Twenty-First Century
"One can deliver a satire with telling force through the insidious medium
of a travesty, if he is careful not to overwhelm the satire with the extraneous
interest of the travesty."
- Mark Twain "A Couple
of Sad Experiences," 1870
Sunday, June 14, 2009, 4:00pm
First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Featuring...
Percival Everett
Lise Haines
Jimmy Tingle
Baron Wormser
and The Harvard Lampoon
This evening we will also present
The 2009 Vasyl Stus Freedom to Write Award
to
Nurmuhemmet Yasinwhose satirical story "Wild Pigeon" Chinese authorities considered critical of their presence in the Xinjiang Uighur Region. After a closed trial in 2005 at which he was denied
a lawyer, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The award is named in
honor of Vasyl Stus, the leading Ukrainian poet of his generation and
the last poet to die in a Soviet gulag.
Free and open to the public.
PEN
(Poets/Playwrights,
Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of
distinguished
and accomplished authors, aspiring writers, and all who
love the written word. Our mission is to advance
the cause of
literature in New England
and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of
three
regional branches of PEN American Center; part of International
PEN, the only worldwide organization of writing professionals as well as the oldest human rights organization in the world.
Lesley University
29 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617/349-8113
pen-ne@lesley.edu
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