The PEN community is deeply saddened by the death of dissident writer, Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) member and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, soon after his release from prison following his diagnosis of late-stage liver cancer. Xiaobo passed away on Thursday, July 13. Xiaobo had led an exceptional live and will always be remembered. More about it on PEN International News page.
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People say that (writers) are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?... Because the spoken word is powerful.
