Writers at Risk

Beskrivning
This list is meant as a help for the theme "Writers at risk", Reading Globally, 2nd quarter 2016. I will add the link to the thread after I create it.
1
28,164 medlemmar
512 recensioner
4.1
2
12,873 medlemmar
198 recensioner
4
3
6,846 medlemmar
251 recensioner
½ 4.3
6 Members
streamsong, charl08, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, rileyhuff, steller0707
Förklaringar
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the revolution in Iran, then exile to Europe.
4
27,439 medlemmar
569 recensioner
½ 4.3
4 Members
dara85, streamsong, Dilara86, ahef1963
Förklaringar
Dilara86: Holocaust memoirs
5
4,844 medlemmar
62 recensioner
½ 4.3
6
3,717 medlemmar
70 recensioner
4
4 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M, rileyhuff
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: An autobiographical novel of the author's experience in a Japanese prison camp as a young boy during WWII.
7
9,210 medlemmar
119 recensioner
4
3 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86, rileyhuff
Förklaringar
Dilara86: slavery
8
1,042 medlemmar
35 recensioner
3.9
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: A novel depicting the brutal, oppressive life of a Egyptian village girl. It was inspired by the author's contact with an imprisoned woman. Almost a decade later, the author herself was imprisoned and terrorized for her ongoing feminist activism.
9
656 medlemmar
18 recensioner
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: "one of the greatest treatments of flight and exile in modern German writing...." written during the author's own flight from the Nazis.
10
391 medlemmar
6 recensioner
3.8
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, spiphany
Förklaringar
kidzdoc: This novel was written on toilet paper during the author's year long imprisonment.
11
342 medlemmar
10 recensioner
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: The author fled the violence tearing Yugoslavia apart in 1993. This novel is an attempt "to capture the slow and constant sense of loss and displacement caused by exile..."
12
221 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 4.3
3 Members
chlorine, thorold, Dilara86
Förklaringar
chlorine: Haitian writer condemning Papa Doc's dicatorship. He was so angry that the family bought all the copies they could find to try and save her.
13
21,791 medlemmar
337 recensioner
4
2 Members
FlorenceArt, gypsysmom
Förklaringar
FlorenceArt: A memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland and escape to America.
14
15,583 medlemmar
312 recensioner
4.2
15
10,078 medlemmar
143 recensioner
½ 4.4
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
16
8,659 medlemmar
257 recensioner
½ 4.5
2 Members
streamsong, FlorenceArt
Förklaringar
FlorenceArt: A second-hand account of the life of Spiegelman's father, a Polish Jew, as he was persecuted and later sent to Auschwitz.
17
6,051 medlemmar
98 recensioner
½ 4.3
2 Members
thorold, FlorenceArt
Förklaringar
thorold: Italian-Jewish chemist tries to make sense of his experience of Auschwitz
18
3,964 medlemmar
113 recensioner
4.2
2 Members
kidzdoc, chlorine
Förklaringar
chlorine: Black man living as a free man in the North of the US illegally sold into slavery in the south.
19
3,522 medlemmar
48 recensioner
4.1
20
2,170 medlemmar
59 recensioner
4.1
2 Members
dara85, streamsong
21
1,331 medlemmar
34 recensioner
3.8
2 Members
thorold, ELiz_M
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1,158 medlemmar
10 recensioner
½ 3.6
2 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86
Förklaringar
Dilara86: slavery
23
1,084 medlemmar
43 recensioner
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, spiphany
Förklaringar
thorold: Young people trying to stand up against Ceaucescu
24
391 medlemmar
6 recensioner
½ 3.6
25
247 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 4.3
26
200 medlemmar
6 recensioner
3.9
2 Members
chlorine, spiphany
Förklaringar
chlorine: Hungarian woman and her family flee the communist regime and emigrate to Switzerland.
27
118 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 4.6
2 Members
rebeccanyc, charl08
Förklaringar
rebeccanyc: Escaped from the Nazis only to be imprisoned for his work in the Free Hungary movement.
28
7,921 medlemmar
76 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
FlorenceArt
Förklaringar
FlorenceArt: I'm including this book, which is the sequel to Angela's Ashes, because it belongs to the theme more than the first, although I understand it's not as good (I haven't read it).
29
6,060 medlemmar
232 recensioner
4
Member
dara85
30
4,222 medlemmar
38 recensioner
3.9
31
3,022 medlemmar
34 recensioner
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
Förklaringar
FlorenceArt: A fictionalized account of the author's time in a Siberian prison camp.
32
1,974 medlemmar
42 recensioner
4
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Italian dissident sent into internal exile by Mussolini
33
1,935 medlemmar
59 recensioner
3.9
Member
dara85
34
Member
chlorine
Förklaringar
chlorine: Woman living in Berlin at the end of WWII when Russians invaded. Had to endure multiple rapes and privations.
35
1,584 medlemmar
35 recensioner
4.2
Member
ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: A collection of short stories loosely based on the author's experiences in various concentration camps.
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1,519 medlemmar
32 recensioner
4.2
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1,477 medlemmar
30 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
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1,470 medlemmar
20 recensioner
4.2
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1,360 medlemmar
34 recensioner
3.8
Member
chlorine
Förklaringar
chlorine: Woman in Africa submitted to genital mutilations. Managed to emigrate to London. Was a UN special ambassador in the fight againts femage genital mutilations.
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1,161 medlemmar
1 recension
4.1
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Italian communist imprisoned under Mussolini, leading theoretician of European Marxism
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1,102 medlemmar
18 recensioner
4.1
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Gay Cuban novelist's autobiography (imprisonment, exile, AIDS)
42
979 medlemmar
57 recensioner
4.1
Member
kidzdoc
Förklaringar
kidzdoc: This novel is about the persecution of the Romanian German population in Stalinist Russia, and its deportation to forced labor camps after World War II.
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944 medlemmar
17 recensioner
4
Member
ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: from wiki: Behan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and he was also imprisoned in Republic of Ireland.
44
794 medlemmar
28 recensioner
3.8
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Not read, but looks relevant
45
772 medlemmar
18 recensioner
4
Member
chlorine
46
758 medlemmar
11 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
47
722 medlemmar
16 recensioner
3.9
Member
spiphany
48
636 medlemmar
21 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
chlorine
Förklaringar
chlorine: Young woman in Afghanistan forced to live under Taliban's rule. Escaped to France and wrote this book.
49
635 medlemmar
11 recensioner
4.2
Member
dara85
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597 medlemmar
5 recensioner
4.2
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: US anarchist & feminist exiled to Russia and then to France
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565 medlemmar
3 recensioner
4.2
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Russian poet who wrote about her encounters with the Stalinist terror
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527 medlemmar
5 recensioner
4.1
Member
spiphany
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513 medlemmar
30 recensioner
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
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469 medlemmar
6 recensioner
4
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448 medlemmar
7 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
rebeccanyc
Förklaringar
rebeccanyc: Born in exile, died in exile, jailed twice by the French and once by the Soviets.
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432 medlemmar
13 recensioner
3.9
Member
rebeccanyc
Förklaringar
rebeccanyc: Written back and forth on sheets of paper when Fallada was imprisoned in a Nazi mental hospital for the criminally insane.
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385 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: The first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies (West Indies) and publish a record of her experience.
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283 medlemmar
15 recensioner
3.8
Member
SassyLassy
Förklaringar
SassyLassy: Two writers living in exile
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279 medlemmar
7 recensioner
4
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: The Mann family in exile
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237 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Czech dissident (later president) writes to his wife from prison
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212 medlemmar
9 recensioner
½ 4.5
63
211 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
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199 medlemmar
7 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: On being exiled from a country that no longer exists (GDR) - also has a lot about other German political exiles in California, like the Manns
65
194 medlemmar
6 recensioner
3.2
Member
ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: The main character, like the author, was a victim of China's "anti-rightest movement" in the mid-1950s. The novel depicts the banal brutality of the political system.
66
190 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 4.6
Member
FlorenceArt
Förklaringar
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the author's life as a Polish Jew persecuted both by the nazis and soviets.
67
av Ovid
170 medlemmar
2 recensioner
3.9
Member
spiphany
Förklaringar
spiphany: Writings of the poet Ovid after his banishment from Rome in 8 AD.
68
167 medlemmar
4 recensioner
3.8
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Scottish teenager who tried to assassinate Franco and spent time behind bars in Spain and in the UK
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149 medlemmar
3 recensioner
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
Förklaringar
FlorenceArt: Memoir of a child and her family trying to survive in occupied Hungary.
70
144 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
71
Member
spiphany
72
126 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
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118 medlemmar
2 recensioner
4.2
Member
spiphany
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78 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
kidzdoc
Förklaringar
kidzdoc: Dowlatabadi composed this novel internally while he was imprisoned in Iran, and wrote it shortly after his release.
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75 medlemmar
19 recensioner
½ 4.4
76
74 medlemmar
1 recension
3.8
Member
spiphany
Förklaringar
spiphany: Andrei Sinyavsky (pseud. Abram Tertz) was tried and imprisoned for his Soviet-critical writing (The Trial Begins; On Socialist Realism). "A Voice from the Chorus" was based on his experiences while imprisoned.
77
73 medlemmar
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: British/Irish playwright persecuted because of his sexuality (this is a book about rather than by)
78
69 medlemmar
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Russian 19th century socialist exiled to London
79
67 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 2.5
Member
ELiz_M
Förklaringar
ELiz_M: An account of the writer's arrest and trial, his prison dreams and fantasies.
80
63 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 3.7
81
55 medlemmar
3.8
Member
SassyLassy
Förklaringar
SassyLassy: Written by Bukharin while he was in prison before his execution under Stalin
82
53 medlemmar
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Förklaringar
Dilara86: Memoirs of a feminist anarchist who was imprisoned and sent to a penal colony
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45 medlemmar
3.8
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Two great German-Jewish poets exchange letters
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44 medlemmar
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany
Förklaringar
spiphany: Heym fled Nazi Germany to the US, where he fought with the Americans in WWII. Left the US in the 1950s because of his communist politics, emigrated to East Germany, where he was initially welcomed, but later banned from publishing due to his criticism of the government.
85
38 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 3.3
Member
Dilara86
Förklaringar
Dilara86: Written by a former Islamic State hostage
86
34 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: White journalist jailed for his part in an anti-apartheid group.
87
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: The author was imprisoned together with Mandela
88
26 medlemmar
4
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Poet who was imprisoned by the regime in Malawi
89
21 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 4.6
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: German-Jewish poet who wrote about life after the Holocaust
90
15 medlemmar
1 recension
5
91
13 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Left-wing political exiles from the Continent in 19th century London
92
9 medlemmar
4
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Play by-and-about two South African political prisoners on Robben Island staging Antigone
93
av Tian
7 medlemmar
4
94
7 medlemmar
Member
spiphany
Förklaringar
spiphany: Biermann's expatriation by the East Germany government provoked protests by many prominent German writers.
95
3 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Dutch journalist stuck in revolutionary Russia
96
6,112 medlemmar
59 recensioner
3.9
97
1,245 medlemmar
50 recensioner
½ 3.5
98
1,054 medlemmar
20 recensioner
½ 4.3
99
758 medlemmar
15 recensioner
4.1
100
357 medlemmar
13 recensioner
3.9